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Alternative Thinking
Why Do Most Investors Choose Concentration Over Leverage?
2Q 2012
Return-seeking investors must take risks—the question is which to take and to understand the tradeoffs involved. Most investors choose concentration risk, but we present arguments for a different approach.
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Tail-Hedging Strategies
4Q 2012
Tail hedges are one way to potentially limit losses in adverse markets—but at a substantial cost. We discuss alternative approaches, such as trend-following strategies, which are more cost-effective and may offer portfolio protection in market downdrafts
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Estimating Long Term Expected Returns
2Q 2013
Diversification is underutilized in most institutional portfolios but may improve risk-adjusted returns, active returns and total returns more reliably than concentrated positions.
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Challenges of Incorporating Tactical Views
4Q 2014
Tactical timing is inherently more difficult than it seems. We explore which types of tactical views may be worth taking.
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Style Premia / Bond Returns
3Q 2013
We review how style premia have historically generated attractive long-run returns in virtually every place we have studied them, and may help reduce risk through better diversification. We then look at fixed income returns in different environments
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Style Investing in Fixed Income
3Q 2016
Systematic investing is often applied in equity markets but less so in fixed income. Here, we show that classic-style premia—typically applied in stock selection and equity country allocation—could have also work in fixed income markets.
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Strategic Portfolio Construction
2Q 2015
When it comes to portfolio construction, many investors seek guidance on “putting it all together.” We discuss our systematic approach and examine how investor-specific beliefs and constraints can inform and interact with formal optimization methods.
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Strategic Risk Allocation
2Q 2014
We believe investors should broadly diversify and risk balance as a starting point to asset allocation, but perhaps then mildly overweight assets with high Sharpe ratios or good diversification benefits if they can identify these.
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Should Investors Worry About Rising Real Yields?
2Q 2014
We document the response of various asset classes and strategies in historical episodes of sharply rising real bond yields—and found that investor portfolios tend to suffer less in bond-related tail events than in equity-related tail events.
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2016 Capital Market Assumptions for Major Asset Classes
1Q 2016
We update our multi-year expected return assumptions for major stock and bond markets, and investigate expected returns for credits and commodities.