Risk Allocation in Capital Markets: Portfolio Insurance, Tactical Asset Allocation and Collar Strategies

Tactical Asset Allocation

Robust portfolio asset allocation and risk measures

Many financial optimization problems involve future values of security prices, interest rates and exchange rates which are not known in advance, but can only be forecast or estimated. Several methodologies have therefore been proposed to handle the uncertainty in financial optimization problems. One such methodology is Robust Statistics, which addresses the problem of making estimates of the un...

Tactical Asset Allocation: Predictability of Capital Markets Using Error Correction Models - Proceedings AFIR 1996 - Nürnberg, Germany

How to optimize returns of an international equity or bond portfolio? Which bets should we make between bonds and stocks on a domestic balanced portfolio? Access to capital markets has become increasingly easier for investors. In this context, the Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA), which refers to how a portfolio's funds would be allocated, given the investor's short-term forecasts, is an essenti...

asset allocation strategies

a number of theories about the hest method of allocating assets have been developed over the years, managers are concernd about allocating scarce resources, mainly capital, in most productive way. managers want to ensure that the return from the invested resources exceeds the cost of resources finanical theories and finanicial strategies try to facilitate creating optimum value for investors in...

Tactical asset allocation and presidential elections

Over the past 75 years, common stocks performed better under Democrats, while U.S. government bonds and Treasury (T) bills performed better under Republicans. Using a mean-variance framework, we find that Democrats provide better risk-reward opportunities for portfolios weighted toward stocks, while Republicans provide better tradeoffs for portfolios weighted toward government bonds and T-bills...