The Effects of Equity Policy Benchmark Decisions in the UK
Research Paper
October 1, 2009
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Unprecedented political, economic, and technological developments in the last 20 years have resulted in a high degree of integration across companies, industries, and markets around the world. Institutional equity portfolio construction appears to be lagging behind, with most institutional portfolios still suffering from significant home bias effects. Using data from the UK market, we have shown that adopting a market-cap weighted global policy benchmark instead of a traditional home bias approach could potentially have substantial benefits for investors' risk-adjusted performance and exposure to tail risk.
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