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Your Essential Guide to Quantitative Hedge Fund Investing
Your Essential Guide to Quantitative Hedge Fund Investing provides a conceptual framework for understanding effective hedge fund investment strategies. The book offers a mathematically rigorous exploration of different topics, framed in an easy to digest set of examples and analogies, including stories from some legendary hedge fund investors. Readers will be guided from the historical to the cutting edge, while building a framework of understanding that encompasses it all. Features Filled with novel examples and analogies from within and beyond the world of finance Suitable for practitioners and graduate-level students with a passion for understanding the complexities that lie behind the raw mechanics of quantitative hedge fund investment A unique insight from an author with experience of both the practical and academic spheres
Enrich Your Future
Create a winning portfolio by understanding the realities of modern investing In Enrich Your Future: The Keys to Successful Investing, prolific author and investor Larry Swedroe shines light on the foundation of modern investing, enabling readers to create winning portfolios through simple yet effective strategies. Through a combination of analogies, personal anecdotes, and empirical evidence from peer reviewed journals, the book clearly explains how to play the winner’s game, instead of simply following the crowd, speculating, and making brokers and fund families wealthy in the process. The book begins by first explaining how to put your portfolio on the right path, then how to keep a ste...
Modeling and Pricing of Swaps for Financial and Energy Markets with Stochastic Volatilities
Modeling and Pricing of Swaps for Financial and Energy Markets with Stochastic Volatilities is devoted to the modeling and pricing of various kinds of swaps, such as those for variance, volatility, covariance, correlation, for financial and energy markets with different stochastic volatilities, which include CIR process, regime-switching, delayed, mean-reverting, multi-factor, fractional, Levy-based, semi-Markov and COGARCH(1,1). One of the main methods used in this book is change of time method. The book outlines how the change of time method works for different kinds of models and problems arising in financial and energy markets and the associated problems in modeling and pricing of a vari...
Your Complete Guide to a Successful and Secure Retirement
Fully revised and updated second edition. This is your one-stop, definitive resource as you prepare for a secure and comfortable retirement. Investment and personal finance experts Larry Swedroe and Kevin Grogan present uniquely comprehensive coverage of every important aspect you need to think about as you approach retirement, including: Social Security, Medicare, investment planning strategy, portfolio maintenance, preparing your heirs, retirement issues faced by women, the threat of elder financial abuse, going beyond financials to think about your happiness, and much more. These topics are explained with the help of specialists in each subject. And everything is based on the "science of investing" – evidenced with studies from peer-reviewed journals. Overall, this adds up to a complete retirement guide, packed with the latest and best knowledge. Don't enter your retirement without it.
Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing
Sustainable investing is booming. The investment industry is fast approaching a point where one-third of global assets under management are invested with a sustainable objective. But do sustainable investment products do what investors expect them to do? How can an investor tell if their investments are having the social impact they want? Does that impact come at a financial cost? And how can investors weave their way through the web of confusing acronyms, conflicting agency ratings, and the mass of fund offerings, confident that they can recognize and avoid corporate greenwashing? Larry Swedroe and Sam Adams cut through the fog and bring clarity on all of this and more—providing investors...
Alternative Lending
The book covers alternative lending using the emergence of Debt Funds in the EU as a case study. The book explores the risks that they can pose to financial stability, and the regulatory and supervisory tools available to mitigate these risks. Through this analysis, the book uncovers the risks and potential risk mitigation tools that can be applied to the alternative lenders–including debt funds and other potential alternative lenders. After identifying the reasons behind the growth of alternative lenders (using as example the assets of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and in particular debt funds) and the simultaneous decrease of the banks’ assets, the book analyses the systemic impo...
Portfolio Management of Commodity Trading Advisors with Volatility Targeting
I show analytically that a volatility-targeted allocation methodology improves the risk-adjusted performance of portfolios under a broad set of assumptions regarding the serial correlation of returns, the variability of volatility and dependence of the expected Sharpe ratio on the level of volatility. I examine the impact of volatility targeting on portfolios of Commodity Trading Advisors within the large-scale simulation framework of Molyboga and L'Ahelec (2016) that accounts for the realistic constraints on institutional investors. I find a consistent and statistically significant improvement in the out-of-sample returns that ranges between 0.53% and 0.80% per annum, on average. The performance enhancement is robust to portfolio size and manager selection, and is implementable inside managed account investments.
A Simulation-Based Methodology for Evaluating Hedge Fund Investments
This paper introduces a large scale simulation framework for evaluating hedge funds' investments subject to the realistic constraints of institutional investors. The method is customizable to the preferences and constraints of individual investors, including investment objectives, performance benchmarks, rebalancing period and the desired number of funds in a portfolio and can incorporate a large number of portfolio construction and fund selection approaches. As a way to illustrate the methodology, we impose the framework on a subset of hedge funds in the managed futures space that contains 604 live and 1,323 defunct funds over the period 1993-2014. We then measure the out-of-sample performa...
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A Modified Hierarchical Risk Parity Framework for Portfolio Management
This paper introduces a Modified Hierarchical Risk Parity ("MHRP") approach that extends the HRP approach by incorporating three intuitive elements commonly used by practitioners. The new approach (i) replaces the sample covariance matrix with an exponentially weighted covariance matrix with Ledoit-Wolf shrinkage, (ii) improves diversification across portfolio constituents both within and across clusters by relying on an equal volatility, rather than an inverse variance, allocation approach, and (iii) improves diversification across time by applying volatility targeting to portfolios. I examine the impact of the enhancements on portfolios of Commodity Trading Advisors within a large-scale Monte-Carlo simulation framework that accounts for the realistic constraints of institutional investors. I find a striking improvement in the out-of-sample Sharpe ratio of 50%, on average, along with a reduction in downside risk.
