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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.
Alternative Thinking
Ideas for a Low-Expected-Return World
1Q 2012
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.
Alternative Thinking
Good Strategies for Tough Times
3Q 2015
Following recent losses across global equities and concern about downside risk, we take a look at the performance of different investments during the worst quarters in recent decades for stock and bond markets.
Alternative Thinking
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.
Alternative Thinking
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.
Alternative Thinking
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.
Trade Publication
The 5% Solution
May 1, 2012
Institutional investors commonly target 5% real annual returns, or 7% to 8% nominal returns.
Working Paper
Bubble Logic: Or, How to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Bull
August 1, 2000
A bull market produces stories, often absorbed by investors engaged in wishful thinking, that encourage the purchase or retention of stocks or mutual funds. This has led them to bid up stocks so high that even long-term investors will be disappointed.
Working Paper
The Bubble Has Not Popped
October 24, 2001
Many called the stock market “undervalued” in 2002, based on how far and fast it had fallen over the prior two years. But this 2002 article contends that stocks are not necessarily cheap after the decline.
White Paper
Implementing Portable Alpha: A Case Study
September 1, 2007
This 2007 case study examines what happens when a fictional public pension plan faces an equity market slump, lower expected equity-market returns and a legislature-mandated increase in the investment portfolio’s target real rate of return.