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This Article attempts to define hedge funds and to distinguish them from a variety of similar investment funds. After reviewing the hedge fund definition in the U.S. and the EU, this Article argues that the current regulatory framework, which defines hedge funds by reference to what they are not...
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This paper examines the macro-spanning hypothesis for bond returns in international markets. Based on a large panel of real-time macro variables that are not subject to revisions, wefind that global macro factors have predictive power for bond returns unspanned by yield factors.Furthermore, we...
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It is widely observed that primary commodity prices comove. A parallel literature asserts that correlation risk matters … for financial returns. Our novel study connects these topics and presents evidence that commodity correlation risk is both … non-constant and important for returns. We reconsider therefore the relationship between primary commodities, risk and …
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Recent studies have shown that disaster risk can generate asset return moments similar to those observed in the U ….S. data. However, these studies have ignored the cross-country asset pricing implications of the disaster risk model. This … paper shows that standard U.S.-based disaster risk model assumptions found in the literature lead to counterfactual …
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risk and returns from a financial as well as a social impact perspective have so far been used in various fashions, thus … risk and increases sustainability. In addition, more and more investors demand ESG factors to be considered when it comes …
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Arbitrage pricing model (APT) is one of the models that describe risk of investment on the capital market. The model … sources of the systematic risk of investment and which influence the behaviour of the rates of returns of funds portfolios …
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Investment managers require a consistent asset pricing model, asset allocation recommendations and risk …, and maximize risk-adjusted returns as opposed to expected utility) provides recommendations on the three facets that are … paper briefly surveys the literature on MPT, GBI, and agency before providing a normative Goals- and Risk-Based Asset …
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Can the art and science of investment management be reduced to a set of patterns that markets generally follow, in apparent violation of the efficient market hypothesis? Can investors reasonably expect to make money from the knowledge of these patterns, even after they have not only been...
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stock exchanges by studying the evolution of the unitized risk values for real rates of return during the 1950-2012 time-period …
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