Portfolio diversification /
"Portfolio Diversification provides an update on the practice of combining several risky investments in a portfolio with the goal of reducing the portfolio's overall risk. In this book, readers will find a comprehensive introduction and analysis of various dimensions of portfolio diversifi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2017.
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Colección: | Quantitative finance set.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Portfolio Size, Weights and Entropy-based Diversification
- 1.1. Mathematical notations
- 1.2. Portfolio concentration and diversity measures
- 1.3. Entropy
- 1.4. Conclusions on pure weights and entropy-based diversification
- Chapter 2. Modern Portfolio Theory and Diversification
- 2.1. The mathematics of return and risk
- 2.2. Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT)
- 2.3. Empirical applications
- 2.4. Using MPT in practice: key issues
- 2.5. Increasing the diversification of Markowitz portfolios
- 2.6. Conclusions on MPT
- Chapter 3. Naive Portfolio Diversification
- 3.1. A (very) simplified model
- 3.2. The law of average covariance
- 3.3. The relative benefits naive portfolio diversifications
- 3.4. Empirical tests
- 3.5. Economic limits and statistical tests
- 3.6. Naive versus Markowitz diversification
- 3.7. Conclusions on naive diversification
- Chapter 4. Risk-budgeting and Risk-based Portfolios
- 4.1. Risk measures and their properties
- 4.2. The toolkit for portfolio risk attribution
- 4.3. Risk allocation and risk parity approaches
- 4.4. The maximum diversification approach
- 4.5. The minimum variance approach
- 4.6. Revisiting portfolio construction with a risk-based view
- 4.7. Conclusions on risk-based approaches
- Chapter 5. Factor Models and Portfolio Diversification
- 5.1. Factor models
- 5.2. Principal component analysis (PCA)
- 5.3. Conclusion on factor models
- Chapter 6. Non-normal Return Distributions, Multiperiod Models and Time Diversification
- 6.1. Non-normal returns
- 6.2. Multi-period models and time diversification
- Chapter 7. Portfolio Diversification in Practice
- 7.1. Households and the empirical diversification puzzle
- 7.2. Diversification versus concentration
- 7.3. Interpreting correlations: history, facts and fallacies
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.