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Alternative Thinking

The Role of Alternative Beta Premia

3Q 2012 - AQR Capital Management

Alternative beta premia—dynamic long-short strategies—offer effective diversified sources of return. To us, the most useful classifications are hedge fund strategy premia and style premia, two complementary approaches

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2015 Capital Market Assumptions for Major Asset Classes

1Q 2015 - AQR Capital Management

We update our expected returns and review our framework for constructing estimates of long-term expected returns for major asset classes, among other things.

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Estimating Long Term Expected Returns

2Q 2013 - AQR Capital Management

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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2014 Capital Market Assumptions for Major Asset Classes

1Q 2014 - AQR Capital Management

We present our capital market assumptions for major asset classes and explore justifiable frameworks for estimating multi-year expected returns.

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Bad Habits and Good Practices

3Q 2014 - AQR Capital Management

Good investing requires good investments and good investors. We discuss the latter and address bad habits that can affect long-term performance.

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Ideas for a Low-Expected-Return World

1Q 2012 - AQR Capital Management

There are different ways to achieve ambitious real return targets, but we think risk-balanced diversification across well-chosen return sources is the most reliable, strategic approach.

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Tail-Hedging Strategies

4Q 2012 - AQR Capital Management

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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Why Do Most Investors Choose Concentration Over Leverage?

2Q 2012 - AQR Capital Management

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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2016 Capital Market Assumptions for Major Asset Classes

1Q 2016 - AQR Capital Management

We update our multi-year expected return assumptions for major stock and bond markets, and investigate expected returns for credits and commodities.

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Mapping Investable Return Sources to Macro Environments

4Q 2013 - AQR Capital Management

We explore the empirical relationships between investable strategies (asset classes and style premia) and macroeconomic environments. We find that style premia have meaningfully less macro exposure than do asset classes