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Expected Returns on Major Asset Classes
January 5, 2012
Expected returns are arguably the most important input into investment decisions. By broadening the traditional paradigm of expected return estimation, we think investors have the ability achive better-diversified portfolios and more forward-looking analysis.
Book
Expected Returns: An Investors Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
March 1, 2011
Finance theories have changed dramatically over the past 30 years, away from the restrictive theories of the single-factor CAPM, efficient markets, and constant expected returns.
Book
Consistency of Carry Strategies in Europe
September 1, 2003
In this chapter, we focus on strategies in the European bond market that shift money from government bonds to higher-yielding credits. While most carry strategies seem to add value in the long run, some strategies appear more risky than others.
Alternative Thinking
2017 Capital Market Assumptions For Major Asset Classes
1Q 2017
We update our multi-year expected return assumptions for major stock and bond markets. Compared with historical averages of value metrics, we beloieve we are in a low expected return environment.
Alternative Thinking
Exploring Rates Sensitivity
2Q 2017
Fed tightening has many investors interested in risks surrounding monetary policy, rising yields and inflation.
White Paper
Improving Target-Date Funds
January 2, 2013
Target-date funds (TDFs) may be the preferred long-term investment vehicle for many defined-contribution plan sponsors and their participants. However, TDFs may have some shortcomings, and we discuss two of them in our analysis.
White Paper
Alpha Beyond Expected Returns
March 1, 2012
Many institutional investors focus primarily on one source of alpha: expected returns. We argue that “alpha” may also becaptured in virtually every other stage of the investment process and discuss seven sources of opportunities.
White Paper
Are Defensive Stocks Expensive? A Closer Look at Value Spreads
November 20, 2015
Investors have been concerned about the rich valuation of defensive stocks and how that may crimp returns. Using value spreads, we analyze the relative prices of defensive stocks and discuss the difficulties in predicting style returns.
White Paper
Portfolio Rebalancing, Part 1: Strategic Asset Allocation
December 18, 2015
We discuss the main considerations when designing a rebalancing process, and use a simple empirical analysis to demonstrate the drivers of relative performance over four decades.
White Paper
Defined Contribution Retirement Plans Should Look and Feel More Like Defined Benefit Plans
July 13, 2016
We discuss the origins, structure and ideas behind both DB and DC plans and show how outcomes for investors using DC plans can be improved in future decades.