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The risk conscious investor is defined as the maximizer of a conservative valuation or dynamically a nonlinear …
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Asset allocation models have evolved in complexity with the development of modern portfolio theory, but they continue to operate under the assumption of investor rationality and other assumptions that do not hold in the real world. For this reason, academics and industry professionals make...
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The concept of enterprise risk management will be examined in the context of multi-strategy hedge funds and fund of … hedge funds. This paper seeks to demonstrate that risk at these organizations has to be considered holistically and not in …
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Is the asset management sector a source of financial instability? This paper contributes to the debate by performing a macroprudential stress test in order to quantify systemic risks in the mutual fund sector. For this purpose we include the welldocumented flow-performance relationship as an...
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Risk driver contributions are key to understanding portfolio risk. Often, this is done by decomposing portfolio … ‘volatility’. This is problematic in the presence of non-elliptical distributions. Some asset managers propose switching to value-at-risk … (VaR) or expected shortfall (ES) as risk measures. Often the latter is preferred as it deals better with risk in sub …
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-horizon goal makes it more appealing among practitioners than myopic approaches, like Markowitz's mean-variance or risk parity. The … GOP literature typically considers risk-neutral investors with an infinite investment horizon. In this paper, we compute … the optimal bet sizes in the more realistic setting of risk-averse investors with finite investment horizons. We find that …
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involves taking on some implicit short options risk.This article will briefly touch on the problems with using traditional …
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