Our survey of hedge fund strategies continues. Intermediate between long/short equity hedging and equity hedged market neutral is a fairly recent innovation: enhanced active 100X –X (EA).
Click here for reuse options! A long/short equity hedging strategy consists of selecting a core long equity portfolio and then partially or fully offsetting it with short equity positions.
Click here for reuse options! When we recently examined Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model (I-CAPM), we understood it to be an extension of CAPM in which investors establish additional portfolios to hedge specific risks representing short-term idiosyncratic tastes and preferences. Typical examples of these specific risks include inflation, job loss, economic downturn, etc. The model is somewhat incomplete, in that it doesn’t specify how to arrive at the proper factors to quantify these additional hedges. Another approach, called the Consumption CAPM (C-CAPM) posits a single additional hedge portfolio based on consumption risk, which is a hedge against future consumption rates.
Click here for reuse options! I-CAPM was first introduced in 1973 by Merton. It is an extension of CAPM which recognizes not only the familiar time-independent CAPM beta relationship, but also additional factors that change over time (hence “intertemporal”).
Click here for reuse options! Many trading firms, especially ones that are not self-clearing, use prime brokerages to maintain accounting books and records on the trading firm’s behalf. Accrual accounting is used: items are recognized when they are earned and expenses recognized when they are incurred. Because accrued-based accounting is used, in some cases accruals are set up in theRead more about Dividend and Interest Accrual[…]
Click here for reuse options! We have devoted a lot of blog space in the past examining the pros and cons of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). The model predicts the amount of excess return (return above the risk-free rate) of an arbitrary portfolio that can be ascribed to a relationship (called beta[1]) to the excess returns on the underlying market portfolio.
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