Risk-Based and Factor Investing

Coordinator: Jurczenko Emmanuel

Language: English
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This book is a compilation of recent articles written by leading academics and practitioners in the area of risk-based and factor investing (RBFI).

The articles are intended to introduce readers to some of the latest, cutting edge research encountered by academics and professionals dealing with RBFI solutions. Together the authors detail both alternative non-return based portfolio construction techniques and investing style risk premia strategies.

Each chapter deals with new methods of building strategic and tactical risk-based portfolios, constructing and combining systematic factor strategies and assessing the related rules-based investment performances. This book can assist portfolio managers, asset owners, consultants, academics and students who wish to further their understanding of the science and art of risk-based and factor investing.

1. Advances in Portfolio Risk Control
2. Smart Beta: Managing Diversification of Minimum Variance Portfolios
3. Trend-following, Risk-parity and the Influence of Correlations
4. Diversifying Risk Parity: In Today, Out Tomorrow?
5. Robust Portfolio Allocation with Systematic Risk Contribution Restrictions
6. Risk -based Investing but What Risk(s)?
7. Target Volatility
8. Smart Beta Equity Investing Through Calm and Storm
9. Solving the Rebalancing Premium Puzzle
10. Smart Betas: Theory and Construction
11. Low-risk Anomaly Everywhere: Evidence from Equity Sectors
12. The Low Volatility Anomaly and the Preference for Gambling
13. The Low Beta Anomaly and Interest Rates
14. Factoring Profitability
15. Deploying Multi-factor Index Allocations in Institutional Portfolios
16. Defining the Equity Premium, a Framework
17. Designing Multi-Factor Equity Portfolios
18. Factor Investing and Portfolio Construction Techniques
19. Multi-Factor Portfolio Construction for Passively Managed Factor Portfolios
20. Statistical Overfitting and Backtest Performance
Portfolio managers, asset owners, consultants, academics, post-graduate students within the field of mathematics and investment
Emmanuel Jurczenko is Associate Dean and Professor of Finance at Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland. His research focuses on portfolio and risk management with a particular interest in risk budgeting, factor investing, and public and private equity real estate investments. Prior to joining Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, he worked for ABN-AMRO between 2000 and 2006 as head of quantitative analysts, where he was in charge of quantitative fund selection. Mr. Jurczenko has written numerous articles which have been published in academic and practitioner journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne in France.
  • Contains up-to-date research from the areas of RBFI
  • Features contributions from leading academics and practitioners in this field
  • Features discussions of new methods of building strategic and tactical risk-based portfolios for practitioners, academics and students