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Capturing Equity Risk PremiaIn this paper we examine three approaches for capturing equity risk premia. In the 'simple' approach, the manager goes long stocks with positive exposure and shorts stocks with negative exposure, but makes no effort to control for other exposures or to minimize risk. In the 'pure' approach, the manager selectively retains only exposure to the desired factor, while hedging all other exposures. In the 'optimized' approach, the manager constructs the minimum-risk portfolio with unit...
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How ESG Affected Corporate Credit Risk and PerformanceEnvironmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is a very broad field with many different investment approaches addressing various investment objectives across asset classes. While there are many studies relating to ESG in equities, the risk assessment of ESG considerations within fixed income may be equally if not more important. Bonds have limited upside, but in a negative scenario, investors can potentially lose all their invested capital. At a top level, we can break down ESG...
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Harvesting Risk Premia for Large Scale Portfolios
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Harvesting Risk Premia for Large Scale PortfoliosAn accumulating body of empirical research has found positive gross excess returns from exposure to risk factors (or risk premia). Our study was commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance to explore factor strategies, through the lens of risk premia indices, for large funds. The paper examines equity risk premia, such as value, size, low volatility and momentum, focusing on return, risk, and investability. For portfolios of large scale, we construct risk premia indices which have...
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MSCI Fund Model Research NotesThis note describes a new method for estimating the risk exposures of hedge funds and mutual funds when complete holdings are unavailable. Like MSCI’s previous fund models, the Fund Model enables returns-based analysis of funds together with holdings-based analysis of other portfolio components. The new methodology extends traditional returns-based style analysis to incorporate other holdings-based information, reduce noise, and overcome distortions from turnover and the smoothing of illiquid...
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Foundations of Climate Investing: How Equity Markets Have Priced Climate-Transition RisksESG Products & Services Portfolio Management Analytics
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Constructing Low Volatility StrategiesLow volatility is one of the few factors that have historically performed well in turbulent markets. Moreover, over long periods of time, this defensive strategy has produced a premium over the market, contravening one of the most basic theories in finance — that one should not be rewarded with greater returns for taking less than market risk. Since the global financial crisis hit in 2008, low volatility has garnered increased attention from institutional investors. In this paper, we explore...
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Risk Control with Maximum Exposure
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Foundations of Dedicated China Allocations: Part 4
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The Barra Australia Equity Model (AUE4) - Empirical NotesThis Model Insight provides empirical results and analysis for the new Barra Australia Equity Model (AUE4). These notes include extensive information on the structure, the performance, and the explanatory power of the factors. Furthermore, these notes also include a thorough side-by-side comparison of the forecasting accuracy of the AUE4 Model and the AUE3 Model, its predecessor.