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We evaluate the relative performance of funds by conditioning their returns on the cross-section of portfolio characteristics
across fund managers. Our implied procedure circumvents the need to specify benchmark returns or peer funds. Instead, fund-specific
benchmarks for measuring selection and market timing ability are constructed. This technique is robust to herding as well
as window dressing and mitigates survivorship bias. Empirically, the conditional information contained in portfolio weights
defined by industry sectors, assets, and geographical regions is important to the assessment of fund management. For each
set of portfolio characteristics, we identify funds with success at either selecting securities or timing-the-market.
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Mitch Warachka (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Bernd Scherer 《Financial Markets and Portfolio Management》2009,23(3):315-327
The current vast account surpluses of commodity-rich nations, combined with record account deficits in developed markets (the
United States, Britain) have created a new type of investor. Sovereign wealth funds (SWF) are instrumental in deciding how
these surpluses will be invested. We need to better understand the investment problem for an SWF in order to project future
investment flows. Extending Gintschel and Scherer (J. Asset Manag. 9(3):215–238, 2008), we apply the portfolio choice problem for a sovereign wealth fund in a Campbell and Viceira (Strategic Asset Allocation,
2002) strategic asset allocation framework. Changing the analysis from a one to a multi-period framework allows us to establish
a three-fund separation. We split the optimal portfolio for an SWF into speculative demand as well as hedge demand against
oil price shocks and shocks to the short-term risk-free rate. In addition, all terms now depend on the investor’s time horizon.
We show that oil-rich countries should hold bonds and that the optimal investment policy for an SWF as a long-term investor
is determined by long-run covariance matrices that differ from the correlation inputs that one-period (myopic) investors use.
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Bernd SchererEmail: |
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Motivated by the surge in popularity of passive hedge fund investments, the present article discusses the concept of “alternative
beta” and its implications for the hedge fund industry. The article covers a variety of topics, ranging from the basic rationale
for hedge fund replication to replication methodologies and products to the academic and financial market environment. We
find that with their radical departure from the hedge fund hallmark of alpha delivery, passive replication products represent
the next generation of hedge fund investing, and offer the catalyst for further development of the matured hedge fund industry.
Further, we show how the alternative beta concept contributes to a proper separation of alpha, and thus enhances the overall
efficiency and quality of hedge fund returns. The article also demonstrates that hedge fund replication can take several different
forms. In conclusion, we believe that passive hedge fund products have the potential to consistently outperform mediocre (funds
of) hedge funds on an after-fee basis.
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Jan ViebigEmail: |
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Mark Bertus Harris Hollans Steve Swidler 《The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics》2008,37(3):265-279
Until the recent introduction of real estate futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), there have been few opportunities
to manage house price risk. This paper examines whether house price risk can be effectively hedged in Las Vegas, one of the
CME contract cities. The analysis considers hedging from the viewpoint of real estate investment groups, mortgage portfolio
investors, builder/developers and individual homeowners. For investment groups and mortgage holders holding a mix of new and
existing home assets, CME futures would have reduced house price risk by more than 88% over the 1994–2006 period. Similarly,
homeowners implicitly hedging price volatility of existing homes also would have fared well over the sample period. However,
builder/developers worried about new home price appreciation would have been much less successful in managing their risk.
One important caveat, minimum variance hedge ratios change over time and may cause hedge performance to suffer.
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Steve Swidler (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Christoph Hinkelmann Steve Swidler 《The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics》2008,36(1):37-52
This paper examines the use of futures contracts to hedge residential real estate price risk. We examine whether existing
futures contacts can effectively be used to offset volatility in national house prices. Little evidence of any simple systematic
relation between national prices and futures prices is found. Since house prices are not easily replicated with a portfolio
of existing futures contracts, a further implication is that the Chicago Mercantile’s introduction of a financial asset whose
value reflects house prices will help complete the market. Nevertheless, the success of the CME’s new derivative contracts
may be limited in light of state and regional house price correlations.
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Steve Swidler (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Dirk Brounen Piet Eichholtz David C. Ling 《The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics》2007,35(4):449-474
This paper investigates whether it is possible to create value through the active management of direct property portfolios.
Using data from the USA, the UK and Australia, we examine whether trading intensity and portfolio growth explain the risk
and return characteristics of listed property companies. The results suggest that beating the market by pursuing tactical
asset selection and investment timing strategies is difficult even when acquiring and disposing of properties in illiquid
private property markets. When the property type in which the firm specializes is included as a control variable in the regressions,
none of the portfolio management intensity indicators developed in this paper is significantly associated with abnormal performance
or systematic risk.
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Dirk BrounenEmail: |
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Optimal investments in volatility 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Volatility has evolved as an attractive new asset class of its own. The most common instruments for trading volatility are
variance swaps. Mean returns of DAX and ESX variance swaps over the time period of 1995 to 2004 are strongly negative, and
only part of the negative premium can be explained by the negative correlation of variance swap returns with stock market
indices. We analyze the implications of this observation for optimal portfolio composition. Mean-variance efficient portfolios
are characterized by sizable short positions in variance swaps. Typically, the stock index is also sold short to achieve a
better portfolio diversification. To capture heterogeneous preferences for higher moments, we use a variant of the polynomial
goal programming method. We assume that investors strive for a high Sharpe ratio, high skewness, and low kurtosis. Our analysis
reveals that it is often not possible to achieve a balanced tradeoff between Sharpe ratio and skewness. Investors are advised
to hold the extreme portfolios (Sharpe ratio driven, skewness driven, or kurtosis driven) and avoid the middle ground. This
“all-or-nothing” characteristic is reflected in jumps of asset weights when certain thresholds of preference parameters are
crossed. These empirical findings can explain why many investors are so reluctant to implement option-based short-selling
strategies.
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Martin Wallmeier (Corresponding author)Email: |
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M. Deetz T. Poddig I. Sidorovitch A. Varmaz 《Financial Markets and Portfolio Management》2009,23(3):285-313
This paper examines the out-of-sample performance of asset allocation strategies that use conditional multi-factor models
to forecast expected returns and estimate the future variance and covariance. We find that strategies based on conditional
multi-factor models outperform strategies based on unconditional multi-factor models, and do better than a passive buy-and-hold
strategy. However, a strategy that uses the sample mean as a return forecast is superior. We also find that the estimation
of the covariance matrices based on the conditional and unconditional multi-factor models does not improve the performance
of the active asset allocation strategy relative to the incorporation of the historical covariance matrices. These results
are fairly robust to different estimation approaches, as well as to the impact of transaction costs and the consideration
of upper and lower bounds for the portfolio weights.
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M. DeetzEmail: |
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Zhenguo Lin Yingchun Liu Kerry D. Vandell 《The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics》2009,38(2):183-191
This paper re-examines and extends the findings of Bond et al., Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 34, 447–461, (2007) who consider the theoretical model of Lin and Vandell, Real Estate Economics, 35, 291–330, (2007) to determine the extent to which individual real estate asset return characteristics caused by marketing
period risk disappear in a large, diversified real estate portfolio. The effects of marketing period risk are found to disappear
in the limit with growth in the size of the portfolio, with ex ante variance approaching ex post variance, but only if the portfolio consists of nonsystematic risk alone, in which case both approach zero. The marketing period risk factor (MPRF), representing the ratio of ex ante to ex post variance, however, does not in general approach zero in the limit, in fact could increase or decrease depending upon the
illiquidity characteristics of the individual assets and the magnitude and degree of correlation among individual property
returns and marketing periods. The results suggest that even large institutional real estate portfolio managers must consider
the illiquidity present in their portfolios and cannot assume that its effect will be diversified away.
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Kerry D. VandellEmail: |
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A recent trend in the German asset-backed securities (ABS) market is the securitization of subordinated loans and profit participation agreements (PPAs) granted to medium-sized
enterprises (MEs). This paper provides an overview of this growing market and analyzes the benefits of such transactions for
portfolio companies as well as for originators and potential investors. Simulations of 10 recent transactions indicate that
despite the relatively low interest rates charged on obligors, originators and investors can earn attractive returns at fairly
low risk. In particula, the junior tranches of these securitizations exhibit quite attractive risk-return profiles.
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Julia Hein (Corresponding author)Email: |