Maximum Return, Minimum Risk


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High Returns from Low Risk


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Believing "high-risk equals high-reward" is holding your portfolio hostage High Returns from Low Risk proves that low-volatility, low-risk portfolios beat high-volatility portfolios hands down, and shows you how to take advantage of this paradox to dramatically improve your returns. Investors traditionally view low-risk stocks as safe but unprofitable, but this old canard is based on a flawed premise; it fails to see beyond the monthly horizon, and ignores compounding returns. This book updates the thinking and brings reality to modelling to show how low-risk stocks actually outperform high-risk stocks by an order of magnitude. Easy to read and easy to implement, the plan presented here will help you construct a portfolio that delivers higher returns per unit of risk, and explains how to achieve excellent investment results over the long term. Do you still believe that investors are rewarded for bearing risk, and that the higher the risk, the greater the reward? That old axiom is holding you back, and it is time to start seeing the whole picture. This book shows you, through deep historical simulation, how to reap the rewards of smarter investing. Learn how and why low-risk, low-volatility stocks beat the market Discover the formula that outperforms Greenblatt's Construct your own low-risk portfolio Select the right ETF or low-risk fund to manage your money Great returns and lower risk sound like a winning combination — what happens once everyone is doing it? The beauty of the low-risk strategy is that it continues to work even after the paradox is widely known; long-term investment success is possible for anyone who can shake off the entrenched wisdom and go low-risk. High Returns from Low Risk provides the proof, model and strategy to reign in your exposure while raking in the profit.




Risk-Based and Factor Investing


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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. 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







Mutual Fund Investments


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As of 8/9/2018: 23 Stock Mutual Funds. * Year-to-date average returns 7.11%. * Annualized 3 year average returns 12.34%. * Annualized 5 year average returns 12.08%. * Annualized 10 year average returns 10.08%. As of 8/9/2018: 10 Bond Mutual Funds. * Year-to-date average returns -0.41%. * Annualized 3 year average returns 4.03%. * Annualized 5 year average returns 4.48%. * Annualized 10 year average return 5.32%. The paperback provides 33 comprehensive financial reports on each of these mutual funds. The 4-page reports give a description of the investment fund category. The mutual fund name with ticker symbol, investment minimum purchase, IRA minimum purchase, risk, years of gains vs. losses, and much more valuable information. There is a 5-year analysis of performance, net asset value, income distribution of the mutual fund. All vital factual information you need to make an investment for your IRA or personal savings portfolio is in your hands.




Soldier of Finance


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Too much debt? Not enough savings? It's time to become a battle-ready financial warrior, prepared to tackle any money challenge. Modeled on the Soldier's Handbook, which is issued to all new U.S. Army recruits, Soldier of Finance is a no-nonsense, military-style training manual to overcoming financial obstacles and building lasting wealth. Financial planner and experienced army veteran Jeff Rose has divided this book into 14 modules, each section covering an essential element of financial success. You will learn how to: Evaluate your position and commit to change Target and methodically eliminate debt Clean up your credit report Create tactical budgets Build emergency savings Invest for the short and long term Determine an affordable mortgage size, insurance needs, and more. Complete with tales from the trenches and useful tools including quizzes, debriefings, and more, Soldier of Finance is the survival guide you need to face down your finances and bring order and prosperity to your life.




Portfolio and Investment Analysis with SAS


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Choose statistically significant stock selection models using SAS® Portfolio and Investment Analysis with SAS®: Financial Modeling Techniques for Optimization is an introduction to using SAS to choose statistically significant stock selection models, create mean-variance efficient portfolios, and aggressively invest to maximize the geometric mean. Based on the pioneering portfolio selection techniques of Harry Markowitz and others, this book shows that maximizing the geometric mean maximizes the utility of final wealth. The authors draw on decades of experience as teachers and practitioners of financial modeling to bridge the gap between theory and application. Using real-world data, the book illustrates the concept of risk-return analysis and explains why intelligent investors prefer stocks over bonds. The authors first explain how to build expected return models based on expected earnings data, valuation ratios, and past stock price performance using PROC ROBUSTREG. They then show how to construct and manage portfolios by combining the expected return and risk models. Finally, readers learn how to perform hypothesis testing using Bayesian methods to add confidence when data mining from large financial databases.




Invest Like the Best: The Low-Risk Road to High Returns


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Invest Like the Best. The Low-Risk Road to High Returns. The best practices of the most successful investors-with winning track records that span decades-can be clearly defined, easily understood, and simply measured in real time. But, very few people take the time to understand and follow them. After nearly forty years as an analyst, trader, and investor, Chris Belchamber reveals the most common pitfalls, barriers, habits, and beliefs that can send investors in the wrong direction, with sometimes devastating consequences. Learn how to recognize and avoid these issues in your own investing as you discover more than twenty best investor Insights" and find the real relationship between risk and return. Transform your own results and experience as you learn from the greatest minds of investing history. "The investor's chief problem, and his worst enemy, is likely to be himself. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave." -Benjamin Graham




The Use of Risk Budgets in Portfolio Optimization


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Risk budgeting models set risk diversification as objective in portfolio allocation and are mainly promoted from the asset management industry. Albina Unger examines the portfolios based on different risk measures in several aspects from the academic perspective (Utility, Performance, Risk, Different Market Phases, Robustness, and Factor Exposures) to investigate the use of these models for asset allocation. Beside the risk budgeting models, alternatives of risk-based investment styles are also presented and examined. The results show that equalizing the risk across the assets does not prevent losses, especially in crisis periods and the performance can mainly be explained by exposures to known asset pricing factors. Thus, the advantages of these approaches compared to known minimum risk portfolios are doubtful.