Download or read book Combining Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation written by Gary Antonacci and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mean variance analysis has long been utilized as a tool for portfolio construction. In this paper we see how it can also be used for exploring the diverse asset classes represented by exchange traded funds and notes. Mid-cap stocks and mortgage-backed bonds may offer under exploited investment opportunities.We will also see how a timing overlay can add considerable value in constructing efficient portfolios of exchange traded funds and notes.

Download or read book Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation written by Henrik Lumholdt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers each step in the asset allocation process, addressing as many of the relevant questions as possible along the way. How can we formulate expectations about long-term returns? How relevant are valuations? What are the challenges to optimizing the portfolio? Can factor investing add value and, if so, how can it be implemented? Which are the key performance drivers for each asset class, and what determines how they are correlated? How can we apply insights about the business cycle to tactical asset allocation? The book is aimed at finance professionals and others looking for a coherent framework for decision-making in asset allocation, both at the strategic and tactical level. It stresses analysis rather than pre-conceived ideas about investments, and it draws on both empirical research and practical experience to give the reader as strong a background as possible.

Download or read book Using a Z score Approach to Combine Value and Momentum in Tactical Asset Allocation written by Peng Wang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We present several active strategies for combining value and momentum strategies in a tactical asset allocation (TAA) framework. We refine the basic yield approach to valuation by standardizing the value signal using the Z-score. Such standardization not only enables us to directly compare valuation measures across asset classes, but also offers insight about each asset class's absolute valuation by its own standard. Under the nonlinear approach, it helps to identify market peaks and bottoms. We improve the momentum strategy by considering both relative and absolute performances. In the combined tactical asset allocation model, this modification to momentum acts as a simple mechanism to adjust the importance of value and momentum strategies under different market conditions. Our combined model takes advantage of both short-term momentum effects and long-term mean-reversion in valuation to achieve superior overall portfolio performance. Finally, we also provide alternative models for smaller tracking errors.

Download or read book Theory and Methodology of Tactical Asset Allocation written by Wai Lee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asset allocation has long been viewed as a safe bet for reducing risk in a portfolio. Asset allocators strive to buy when prices are low and sell when prices rise. Tactical asset allocation (TAA) practitioners tend to emphasize shorter-term adjustments, reducing exposure when recent market performance has been good, and increasing exposure in a slipping market (in contrast to dynamic asset allocation, or portfolio insurance). As interest in this technique continues to grow, J.P. Morgan's Wai Lee provides comprehensive coverage of the analytical tools needed to successfully implement and monitor tactical asset allocation.

Download or read book Dual Momentum Investing An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk written by Gary Antonacci and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The investing strategy that famously generates higher returns with substantially reduced risk--presented by the investor who invented it "A treasure of well researched momentum-driven investing processes." Gregory L. Morris, Chief Technical Analyst and Chairman, Investment Committee of Stadion Money Management, LLC, and author of Investing with the Trend Dual Momentum Investing details the author’s own momentum investing method that combines U.S. stock, world stock, and aggregate bond indices--a formula proven to dramatically increase profits while lowering risk. Antonacci reveals how momentum investors could have achieved long-run returns nearly twice as high as the stock market over the past 40 years, while avoiding or minimizing bear market losses--and he provides the information and insight investors need to achieve such success going forward. His methodology is designed to pick up on major changes in relative strength and market trend. Gary Antonacci has over 30 years experience as an investment professional focusing on under exploited investment opportunities. In 1990, he founded Portfolio Management Consultants, which advises private and institutional investors on asset allocation, portfolio optimization, and advanced momentum strategies. He writes and runs the popular blog and website optimalmomentum.com. Antonacci earned his MBA at Harvard.

Download or read book Strategic Asset Allocation written by Peng Wang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors build on traditional mean-variance optimization with a quantitative framework for combining the best of science and judgment in selecting an asset allocation for long horizon investors such as endowments. The novelty of their approach lies in its ability to balance the desire for long-term returns with the need to manage short-term risk and funding constraints, important goals but often in conflict. In order to reap the benefits of long-term risk premia, investors must be able to withstand occasional short-run painful drawdowns. The authors show how their unified approach can be used to examine how different combinations of asset classes, spending rates, and even alpha impact the policy portfolio over various planning horizons. The framework merges the science of portfolio optimization with a structure that informs sound judgment in determining an organization's strategic asset allocation and spending policies.

Download or read book Strategic Versus Tactical Asset Allocation in Markets with High Uncertainty written by Daniel Hosp and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: -, University of Innsbruck, course: Sales Management in Banking and Finance, language: English, comment: Under the current fincial crisis and the uncertain market conditions asset management strategies become even more important. But is a more complex and dynamic strategy which is mostly refered to higher costs really outperforming. This and other questions dealing with strategic and dynamic asset management are treated within this paper., abstract: Asset allocation strategies are a frequently discussed topic with increasing importance in times of crisis. Such strategies should prevent us from price deterioration in bad times and ensure high return potentials in good times. More and more tactical asset allocation funds emerge and promise better returns than simple strategy funds. They always try to be on the right market side, in up as well as in down phases. This seminar paper deals with some basic question about what strategic and tactical asset allocation is, when should it be used and if these strategies are appropriate in a highly uncertain environment like the current. It should give the reader a broad overview about the topic by referring to different accepted theories and studies. First the development of asset allocation methods will be described resulting in strategic and tactical asset allocation and an evaluation of them. Furthermore a link toward uncertain market conditions will be compounded.

Download or read book Analysing the Effects of Tactical Overlays on Equal Weighted and Min CVAR Equal Risk Weighted Portfolios written by Sathish Umapathy and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic asset allocations are based on the longer term view of the assets return and the tactical asset allocation captures the short term views from the market environment. Although numerous studies are conducted on these approaches separately, there are no studies which summarise the results of a combined approach. The studies conducted assume that the other model is readily available. In this paper, we would like to address this by analysing the effects of overlay approaches applied to the equal risk-weighted and equal-weighted portfolios. Minimum CVAR equal risk-weighted portfolio provides an attractive compromise between the good risk-adjusted return properties of the minimum risk portfolio and the positive return potential and low portfolio turnover of an equally weighted portfolio and this makes it a good candidate for a strategic portfolio. To enhance its returns, we constructed overlay approaches using value and momentum signals. We compared the results of the constructed portfolios against the equal-weighted portfolios with overlays and found that different overlays work well with different base portfolios. We found that the value strategy enhanced the risk-adjusted returns of an equal risk-weighted portfolio but not an equal-weighted portfolio. Similarly, we observed that a combined momentum-value strategy works well with the equal-weighted portfolio but not with the equal risk-weighted portfolio. We also found that the momentum strategy works well with both the portfolios. We extended our analysis to different crisis-periods and observed that the combined overlay has a positive effect on already well performing equal risk-weighted portfolios but not on the equal-weighted portfolios. We observed the reverse during the bull periods. Thus we conclude that the overlays add value to the strategic portfolios and the challenge is in identifying the right one under a given macro-economic condition.

Download or read book Risk Based and Factor Investing written by Emmanuel Jurczenko and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of recent articles written by leading academics and practitioners in the area of risk-based and factor investing (RBFI). The articles are intended to introduce readers to some of the latest, cutting edge research encountered by academics and professionals dealing with RBFI solutions. Together the authors detail both alternative non-return based portfolio construction techniques and investing style risk premia strategies. Each chapter deals with new methods of building strategic and tactical risk-based portfolios, constructing and combining systematic factor strategies and assessing the related rules-based investment performances. This book can assist portfolio managers, asset owners, consultants, academics and students who wish to further their understanding of the science and art of risk-based and factor investing. Contains up-to-date research from the areas of RBFI Features contributions from leading academics and practitioners in this field Features discussions of new methods of building strategic and tactical risk-based portfolios for practitioners, academics and students

Download or read book Updating Views by Learning from the Others written by Bjoern Fastrich and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-known difficulties in obtaining satisfactory results with Markowitz' intuitive portfolio theory have lead to an innumerable amount of proposed advancements by researchers and practitioners. As different as these approaches are, they typically appear to exhibit a satisfactory out-of-sample performance; however, at the same time, studies show that the equally weighted portfolio still cannot be dominated by them. The starting point of our study is therefore not an(other) entirely new idea, which is based on a new strategy we claim performs well, but instead the acknowledgement that the strategies proposed in earlier studies have specific advantages, which, though not consistently apparent, might prevail in specific and possible rare situations of dynamic markets. We therefore propose a strategy that "learns from" a population of already existing strategies and dynamically combines their respective characteristics, resulting in a strategy that is expected to perform best in light of the expected/predicted market situation. We show that our approach is successful by carrying out an empirical backtest study applied in a multi-asset setting for investor clienteles with mean-variance, mean-conditional value-at-risk, and maximum Omega utility functions. The improvements of our flexible approach, which include a higher mean return and lower volatility, stay (statistically) significant, even when we take into account transaction costs and improve the competing strategies by employing robust input parameter estimates.

Download or read book The Power of Passive Investing written by Richard A. Ferri and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to passive investing Time and again, individual investors discover, all too late, that actively picking stocks is a loser's game. The alternative lies with index funds. This passive form of investing allows you to participate in the markets relatively cheaply while prospering all the more because the money saved on investment expenses stays in your pocket. In his latest book, investment expert Richard Ferri shows you how easy and accessible index investing is. Along the way, he highlights how successful you can be by using this passive approach to allocate funds to stocks, bonds, and other prudent asset classes. Addresses the advantages of index funds over portfolios that are actively managed Offers insights on index-based funds that provide exposure to designated broad markets and don't make bets on individual securities Ferri is also author of the Wiley title: The ETF Book and co-author of The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning If you're looking for a productive investment approach that won't take all of your time to implement, then The Power of Passive Investing is the book you need to read.

Download or read book Dynamic Asset Allocation Modeling for International Investment written by Loretta T. S. Hung and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tactical asset allocation has become popular in asset management since the stock market crash in October 1987. Researchers and practitioners have always promoted the benefits of international diversification. Much research has been done in domestic asset allocation and global asset allocation. However, a portfolio mix between the S & P 500 Index and the MSCI EAFE Index is a novel combination for tactical asset allocation. The objective of this study is to develop a dynamic asset allocation strategy dealing with such an asset mix. A rolling binary logit model is built using the preceding sixty months of data and is used to forecast the next month's movements of these two indices. Forty-eight trading strategies are implemented to validate the forecastability of the prediction model using the out-of-sample data from January 1978 to September 1999. This study affirms that a dynamic asset allocation strategy can be established to time the market and generate a superior abnormal return on a portfolio investing in these two assets. A prediction model can be built on public information variables to successfully forecast the upcoming movements of these two indices. Even with transaction costs, an investor can rely on the signals to make asset allocation between these two indices and produce a terminal wealth significantly larger than the passive portfolios invested in either one of the indices alone.

Download or read book Use of Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation written by Susan Gosling and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Using a Value at Risk Approach to Enhance Tactical Asset Allocation written by John Okunev and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper we present a simple approach of incorporating a Value at Risk (VAR) constraint to tactical asset allocation (TAA). We outline a dynamic VAR TAA strategy which is useful in controlling the risk and expected losses of any balanced product. From our results it is evident that controlling losses can improve returns and at the same time reduce risk. The attractive feature of the strategy is that it is easy to implement and does not require assumptions about the distribution of returns or estimating investor's utility function. In summary, the strategy provides pension fund managers with prescribed tactical tilts in asset allocation which is consistent with their level of risk aversion. The VAR TAA strategy significantly outperforms the buy hold strategy. This approach can be used as a stand alone strategy or can also be used in conjunction with the views of a TAA manager. We show that when the VAR TAA strategy is combined with more traditional TAA strategies this produces a more robust investment process with improved information ratios.

Download or read book Asset Allocation For Dummies written by Dorianne Perrucci and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-understand how-to guide to the single most important thing you can do in investing — choosing and mixing your assets successfully. You don’t need to be an expert analyst, a star stock-picker, or a rocket scientist to have better investment results than most other investors. You just need to allocate your assets in the right way, and have the conviction to stick with that allocation. The big secret behind asset allocation — the secret that most sophisticated investors know and use to their benefit — is that it’s really not all that hard to do. Asset Allocation For Dummies serves as a comprehensive guide to maximizing returns and minimizing risk — while managing taxes, fees and other costs — in putting together a portfolio to reflect your unique financial goals. Jerry A. Miccolis (Basking Ridge, NJ), CFA®, CFP®, FCAS, MAAA is a widely quoted expert commentator who has been interviewed in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and appeared on CBS Radio and ABC-TV. He is a senior financial advisor and co-owner of Brinton Eaton Wealth Advisors (www.brintoneaton.com), a fee-only investment management, tax advisory and financial planning firm in Madison, N.J. Dorianne R. Perrucci (Scotch Plains, NJ) is a freelance writer who has been published in The New York Times, Newsweek, and TheStreet.com, and has collaborated on several financial books, including I.O.U.S.A, One Nation, Under Stress, In Debt (Wiley, 2008).

Download or read book Adaptive Asset Allocation written by Adam Butler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build an agile, responsive portfolio with a new approach to global asset allocation Adaptive Asset Allocation is a no-nonsense how-to guide for dynamic portfolio management. Written by the team behind Gestaltu.com, this book walks you through a uniquely objective and unbiased investment philosophy and provides clear guidelines for execution. From foundational concepts and timing to forecasting and portfolio optimization, this book shares insightful perspective on portfolio adaptation that can improve any investment strategy. Accessible explanations of both classical and contemporary research support the methodologies presented, bolstered by the authors' own capstone case study showing the direct impact of this approach on the individual investor. Financial advisors are competing in an increasingly commoditized environment, with the added burden of two substantial bear markets in the last 15 years. This book presents a framework that addresses the major challenges both advisors and investors face, emphasizing the importance of an agile, globally-diversified portfolio. Drill down to the most important concepts in wealth management Optimize portfolio performance with careful timing of savings and withdrawals Forecast returns 80% more accurately than assuming long-term averages Adopt an investment framework for stability, growth, and maximum income An optimized portfolio must be structured in a way that allows quick response to changes in asset class risks and relationships, and the flexibility to continually adapt to market changes. To execute such an ambitious strategy, it is essential to have a strong grasp of foundational wealth management concepts, a reliable system of forecasting, and a clear understanding of the merits of individual investment methods. Adaptive Asset Allocation provides critical background information alongside a streamlined framework for improving portfolio performance.

Download or read book Multi Asset Investing written by Yoram Lustig and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning, constructing and managing a multi-asset portfolio A multi-asset investment management approach provides diversification benefits, enhances risk-adjusted returns and enables a portfolio to be tailored to a wide range of investing objectives, whether these are generating returns or income, or matching liabilities. This book is divided into four parts that follow the four stages of the multi-asset investment management process: 1. Establishing objectives: Defining the return objectives, risk objectives and investment constraints of a portfolio. 2. Setting an investment strategy: Setting a plan to achieve investment objectives by thinking about long-term strategic asset allocation, combining asset classes and optimisation to derive the most efficient asset allocation. 3. Implementing a solution: Turning the investment strategy into a portfolio using short-term tactical asset allocation, investment selection and risk management. This section includes examples of investment strategies. 4. Reviewing: Evaluating the performance of a portfolio by examining results, risk, portfolio positioning and the economic environment. By dividing the multi-asset investment process into these well-defined stages, Yoram Lustig guides the reader through the various decisions that have to be made and actions that have to be taken. He builds carefully from defining investment objectives, formulating an investment strategy and the steps of selecting investments, leading to constructing and managing multi-asset portfolios. At each stage the considerations and strategies to be undertaken are detailed, and the description of the process is supported with relevant financial theory as well as practical, real-life examples. 'Multi-asset Investing' is an essential handbook for the modern approach to investment portfolio management.