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]]>A QWAFAFEW discussion led by,
Lawrence Pohlman, PhD
Abstract:
We study a Factor Rotation investment strategy that provides a substantially higher annualized return than that of the aggregate market. We start by showing that the optimal investment strategy for rational investors is factor rotation. We then illustrate the impact on portfolio performance by an investment strategy of rotating positions in the Fama French factors using a Markov Switching model based upon the VIX. Performance can be further improved by estimating switching models for each of the FF factors.
Bio:
Lawrence Pohlman, PhD has a distinguished career covering 30 years of experience in equity, fixed income and asset allocation.
He regularly speaks at professional conferences and is widely published in prominent journals.
He has taught Investments, Corporate Finance, Fixed Income Management and Advanced Derivatives at Columbia Business School, Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts Boston.
Larry was the Director of Research at BMO Global Asset Management, Chief Investment Officer at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, Director of Research at Wellington Management, Director of Research at PanAgora Asset Management, Director of Fixed Income Research at Independence Investment Associates, Vice President at Blackrock Financial Management and Associate in Mortgage Securities Research at Goldman Sachs & Co.
He holds 5 degrees (BS Nuclear Engineering, MS in Operations Research, MBA Finance and Management Science, MPhil Finance, PhD Finance) from Columbia University and is a member of the American Finance Association, Boston Security Analysts Society, Econometric Society, the Chicago Quantitative Alliance, QWAFAFEW and MENSA
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Time: 7:00 PM sharpe
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Steerage Committee:
Hugh Crowther
Dan diBartolomeo
Mike Dunn
Steve Gaudette
Sri Krishnamurthy
Mark Kritzman
John Minahan
Donna Cool Murphy
Larry Pohlman
Dan Potter
Dan Rie
Evan Schulman
Michael Schwartzman
Michael Wilcox
The members of the Steerage Committee are responsible for coordinating the program content.
Program suggestions from members are always welcome.
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A QWAFAFEW discussion led by,
Abstract:
This presentation demonstrates a model of investor utility that builds on key principles of investor behavior that derives an intuitive mathematical result with direct real-world applications. It recognizes ideas familiar from prior work by Kelly, Rubenstein, and Wilcox, but reflects them in a distinct multiperiod setting, incorporating the effect of leverage, periodic levels of required liquidity for consumption, and probability of bankruptcy. In its basic form the utility model shows that investors like expected profits, and dislike expected losses that are scaled by a loss aversion coefficient. The loss aversion itself is a function of leverage, and the amount and timing of required periodic liquidity. One of the implications is also that levered investors are particularly averse to kurtosis and negative skew due to the potential of bankruptcy. These ideas are intuitive to common sense, and the model provides the relationship among the variables involved. An empirical study is included that reflects the application of the utility model as a valuation tool on three major public investments. The comparison of computed vs actual prices of these investments over two decades of monthly history demonstrates that the accuracy of the model to compute fair value is superior to other popular models.
Bio:
Emilian Belev has led the research and development of Northfield’s Enterprise Risk Analytics at Northfield for more than two decades. He is responsible for an integrated framework of multi-asset class analysis including equity, fixed income, currency, interest rate, and credit derivatives, structured products, directly owned real estate, private equity, and infrastructure. He has introduced innovative approaches to both public and private asset investment analysis and has presented on some of these topics at industry events internationally and published research in peer reviewed journals and book chapters.
Prior to joining Northfield, Emilian was with State Street Global Advisors. Emilian is an actively involved CFA charter holder, a recipient of the Certificate in Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management, and a member of the PRMIA expert advisory group for Market Risk.
Emilian is a winner of the 2013 Professional Risk Management International Association Award “New Frontiers in Risk Management”, and recipient of the 2015 American Real Estate Society Award for Best Practitioner Research.
He enjoys part-time teaching of finance graduate students and industry professionals in finance and risk, in addition to his full time industry involvement.
His research passion is the connection between valuation and risk for private assets. This led him to become one of the co-founders of cash flow and valuation analytics firm Aspequity, which closely partners with Northfield on multi-asset class assignments.
Time: 6:30 PM sharpe
Boston QWAFAFEW Mailing List:
Steerage Committee:
Hugh Crowther
Dan diBartolomeo
Mike Dunn
Steve Gaudette
Sri Krishnamurthy
Mark Kritzman
John Minahan
Donna Cool Murphy
Larry Pohlman
Dan Potter
Dan Rie
Evan Schulman
Michael Schwartzman
Michael Wilcox
The members of the Steerage Committee are responsible for coordinating the program content.
Program suggestions from members are always welcome.
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Time: 6:15 PM sharpe
3rd Floor of the Tennis & Racquet Club, 939 Boylston Street
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FLEXIBLE INDETERMINATE FACTOR-BASED ASSET ALLOCATION
A QWAFAFEW discussion led by:
Mark C. Szigety
Abstract
Asset allocation represents a fundamental strategic decision for every institutional investor. Though many asset allocation approaches have been recommended and implemented in various forms, each has its own strengths and weakness. A careful review of current asset allocation frameworks provided motivation to design a hybrid approach that addresses many of these perceived individual shortcomings. Our guiding principle was to use several familiar elements to create a flexible process that incorporates less-quantifiable investment ideas around a rigorous foundation. The result, which we term Flexible Indeterminate Factor-based Asset Allocation (FIFAA), is an adaptive four-step asset allocation synthesis that remains quantitatively and theoretically well grounded. To achieve this goal, FIFAA overlays informed judgment about investment opportunities onto an objectively derived set of core factor exposures.
To obtain the presentation, please email szigetym@gmail.com.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The authors would like to thank the following people for valuable input and feedback: John Campbell, Edwin Cass, Tham Chiew Kit, Martin Leibowitz, Jay Light, Kevin Pan, Edward Qian, Luis Viceira, and Barbara Zvan.
Bio
Mark Szigety was previously Senior Vice President of Asset Allocation and Risk Analytics at Harvard Management Company. During his five years at HMC, Mark was responsible for developing the endowment’s approach to asset allocation and risk modeling, and co-designer of HMC’s new FIFAA asset allocation framework. A published author on asset allocation and risk topics, Mark holds a doctorate from HBS and degrees in Physics from MIT and Harvard.
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As always, if you have names or discussion topics, please forward them to any member of the Steerage Committee
Questions, comments:
Steerage Committee
Hugh Crowther (Treasurer)
Dan diBartolomeo
Mike Dunn
Steve Gaudette
Sri Krishnamurthy
Mark Kritzman
John Minahan
Donna Cool Murphy (Dinners)
Larry Pohlman
Dan Potter
Dan Rie
Evan Schulman
Michael Wilcox
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Program suggestions from members are always welcome.
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Time: 6:15 PM sharpe
3rd Floor of the Tennis & Racquet Club, 939 Boylston Street
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Business Perspectives on Blockchain: Update, Trends, Insights and What Really Matters
A QWAFAFEW discussion led by:
Dushyant Shahrawat, CFA
Abstract
2015 has been the year of the Block chain. The Economist even did a cover story on it. VC investment keeps pouring in with an estimated $625 million of funding in 2015, new startups are still being created, while financial institutions, policy makers and governments are keenly following it.
The evening will start of with a presentation on Block chain technology, followed by a lively discussion covering the following issues:
Don’t miss this end of the year session and celebration!
Bio
Dushyant Shahrawat, CFA has 20 years experience in the financial industry analyzing industry trends, and being an advisor to executives at financial institutions and service providers about strategic challenges across marketing, strategy, digital service, IT and operations. He is a Principal Executive Advisor at CEB and Founding Principal of FINTECH Associates, LLC. His passion is how technology is transforming business, with a particular focus on new business models emerging in the financial services industry using Block chain, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Mobility.
Dushyant has spoken about industry trends at events across the US, Europe and Asia including SIFMA, SWIFT’s Sibos, ISITC, Institutional Investor and Financial Times. He has been interviewed on NPR, CNBC, Fox News and quoted in several publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune and Financial Times.
He is a CFA charter holder and member of the Boston Security Analysts Society. From 2014-2015, he was a full-time Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship, where he also earned an MBA. He serves on the Advisory Board of Mercy College’s Ethics and Leadership Council, and is an Advisor to StockTweets and Innosect, two FinTech startups.
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By Bitcoin
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By check:
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Please RSVP for all meetings you plan to attend: hugh@QWAFAFEW.org
Guests who do not RSVP may have to wait to enter the meeting, due to space constraints (capacity=100, BFD).
Guest fees ($30) can be paid through EMA (check or PayPal, bring receipt) or bitcoin (at address above). We still allow walk-ins (space permitting). The $30 guest fee can be paid by bitcoin, cash or check at the door, no credit cards at the meeting. Please bring exact change.
As always, if you have names or discussion topics, please forward them to any member of the Steerage Committee
Questions, comments:
Steerage Committee
Hugh Crowther (Treasurer)
Dan diBartolomeo
Steve Gaudette
Mark Kritzman
John Minahan
Donna Cool Murphy (Dinners)
Larry Pohlman
Dan Potter
Dan Rie
Evan Schulman
Michael Wilcox
The members of the Steerage Committee are responsible for coordinating the program content.
Program suggestions from members are always welcome..
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Time: 6:15 PM sharpe
3rd Floor of the Tennis & Racquet Club, 939 Boylston Street
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Incorporating Commodities into a
Multi-Asset Class Risk Model
A QWAFAFEW discussion led by:
T.J Blackburn
Abstract
Many institutional investors have begun to hold passive positions in commodities as part of their portfolio. Commodities are presumed to be a diversifying asset with behavior quite different from equities or traditional fixed income securities. This may be attractive to some investors but is problematic from a risk management perspective. On the one hand, we would like explain as much as possible of this behavior, but we must also keep any models of risk sufficiently parsimonious to be statistically stable. The major groups of commodities such as agriculture and metals have behaviors quite different from one another but have obvious linkages to equities of companies whose business relates to the respective commodities. This presentation will cover a Northfield research project that has led to a new two-step approach to estimating risk factor exposures for a wide range of commodity contracts. In the first step, a principal component analysis is performed to find the underlying factors which drive commodity returns. In the second step, these factors are mapped onto the existing Northfield factors. By combining principal components with a judicious choice of regression model we are able to maintain parsimony and limit spurious relationships. We tested the model on randomly generate portfolios of commodity contracts and find good results.
Bio
T.J Blackburn earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in September 2012 where he completed his thesis in Quantum Gravity as well as studying finance. After this he had an internship at Northfield Information Services from June to November of 2013, where he helped improve the coverage of commodity contracts in multi-asset class risk models using a two-step estimation procedure that combined a principal component analysis with a traditional regression-based approach. Next he held a position at BNY Mellon’s Investment Strategy and Solutions Group from November 2013 to June 2014 as an investment analyst. There he helped run a macroeconomic regime-based asset allocation model and performed econometric analysis. He has worked at a very large money manager as a quantitative analyst since June 2014, first in risk management and then in investment management research working on smart beta..
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All annual dues ($150) should be paid to Boston QWAFAFEW by credit card, Bitcoin or check.
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153GtwqHHxdHaTh8i1SC1UmZUuFpXN6wye
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By check:
Executive Management Associates
12 Academy Avenue
Atkinson, NH 03811
bostonqwafafewbilling@gmail.com
Please RSVP for all meetings you plan to attend: hugh@QWAFAFEW.org
Guests who do not RSVP may have to wait to enter the meeting, due to space constraints (capacity=100, BFD).
Guest fees ($30) can be paid through EMA (check or PayPal, bring receipt) or bitcoin (at address above). We still allow walk-ins (space permitting). The $30 guest fee can be paid by bitcoin, cash or check at the door, no credit cards at the meeting. Please bring exact change.
As always, if you have names or discussion topics, please forward them to any member of the Steerage Committee
Questions, comments:
Steerage Committee
Hugh Crowther (Treasurer)
Dan diBartolomeo
Steve Gaudette
Mark Kritzman
John Minahan
Donna Cool Murphy (Dinners)
Larry Pohlman
Dan Potter
Dan Rie
Evan Schulman
Michael Wilcox
The members of the Steerage Committee are responsible for coordinating the program content.
Program suggestions from members are always welcome..
RSVP to: hugh@QWAFAFEW.org
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