We provide novel evidence that hedge fund performance is persistent following periods of relative hedge fund market weakness, but not following periods of relative market strength. Specifically, we construct two performance measures, DownsideReturns and UpsideReturns, conditioning on whether the overall hedge fund market return is below or above its sample median. After adjusting for risk and f...

In this paper, we discuss a multiperiod portfolio selection problem with fuzzy returns. We present a new credibilitic multiperiod mean semi- absolute deviation portfolio selection with some real factors including transaction costs, borrowing constraints, entropy constraints, threshold constraints and risk control. In the proposed model, we quantify the investment return and risk associated with...

The problem of optimal portfolio selection has attracted a great attention in the finance and optimization field. The future stock price should be predicted in an acceptable precision, and a suitable model and criterion for risk and the expected return of the stock portfolio should be proposed in order to solve the optimization problem. In this paper, two new criterions for the risk of stock pr...

Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and arbitrage pricing theory (APT) are used to assess the financial performance of eight forestry-related investment vehicles.Although results from APT support previous findings from CAPM about timberland investments, three bodies of evidence show that APT findings are more robust. The major conclusions are (a) institutional timberland investments and timberla...

Related to the current discussion of value-at-risk-based capital allocation and performance management (RAPM) for managing bank capital, a risk theoretical RAPM-approach for propertylliability-insurance companies is presented. The paper discusses several central issues of a RAPM-approach: Virtual risk adjusted capital (VRAC) on the company level, return on risk adjusted capital (RORAC), risk ba...

Abstract Economists have adopted the Pigouvian approach to climate policy, which sets carbon price social cost of carbon. We adjust this for macroeconomic uncertainty and disasters by deriving risk-adjusted discount rate. highlight ethics- versus market-based calibrations discuss effects a falling term structure Given wide range estimates used marginal damages rate, it is unsurprising that nego...

IMPORTANCE Instituting widespread measurement of outcomes for cancer hospitals using administrative data is difficult owing to lack of cancer-specific information such as disease stage. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of hospitals that treat patients with cancer using Medicare data for outcome ascertainment and risk adjustment and to assess whether hospital rankings based on these measu...