“Window dressing ” is the practice by fund managers of adjusting a fund’s portfolio composition immediately before disclosing the holdings to the public at the end of the quarter. The common wisdom on the street and in the financial press is that window dressing activity has become widespread as investors have become increasingly sophisticated in analyzing fund holdings as well as pastreturnsinaneffort to detect skill. So far, the academic literature on equity mutual funds has provided little empirical evidence to this effect. We analyze the semi-annual holdings and daily net asset values of 4,025 U.S.

Domestic equity mutual funds over the period from 1997 to 2002 and find strong evidence of window dressing. In particular, we show that growth funds and funds with poor recent performance are more likely to report misleading holding. Furthermore, the window dressing activity is not associated with trading strategies that on average provide any added value to investors even before accounting for expenses.

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Neither liquidity costs nor momentum trading can explain these findings. In this paper, we discuss the state-of-the art techniques for optimal asset allocation to traditional and alternative investment vehicles, and we specifically account for the difficulties in estimating risk/return parameters from hedge fund return data. We first present various techniques allowing an investor to better assess the contrasted diversification properties of hedge funds. In particular, we introduce a multi-factor framework for the assessment of which funds should be included for which portfolio. We also present various competing models allowing investors to get a quantitative estimate of the optimal fraction of a given portfolio that should be allocated to hedge funds, in a context where only imperfect estimates of hedge fund expected returns are available. We not only discuss optimal strategic asset allocation decisions; we also explain how tactical asset decisions can also be made in a portfolio mixing traditional and alternative investment vehicles. Atomic Email Hunter Serial 2017 - And Torrent 2017. Finally, we show how hedge fund can be used as portable alpha vehicles in a core/satellite portfolio approach.

There is an urgent need for improved measurement and benchmarking of size and book-tomarket (style) performance. Given the proliferation of choice, a potentially serious problem is that existing style indexes can provide a somewhat confusing picture of the return on these factors.

In this paper, we present detailed evidence of strong heterogeneity in the information conveyed by competing indexes. We also report disturbing evidence that this heterogeneity poses serious problems, not only for modern portfolio analysis, but also for empirical tests of asset pricing theory. This is somewhat reminiscent of Roll’s (1977) critique of CAPM: if the “true ” book-to-market and size factors are not observable, and if there is very little robustness with respect to the choice of the proxy used in empirical tests, then the relevance of these factors in asset pricing theory may never be empirically testable. As an attempt to address some of these problems, in exploratory analysis we suggest various methodologies designed to help extract a “pure style index ” from competing index returns. Optimization models and methods play an increasingly important role in financial decisions. Many computational finance problems ranging from asset allocation to risk management, from option pricing to model calibration can be solved efficiently using modern optimization techniques. This manuscript discusses several classes of optimization problems (including linear, quadratic, conic, robust, and stochastic programming problems) encountered in financial models.