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48 results for active management

Study finds Indian mutual funds adjust cash holdings based on inflows, impacting stock purchases.

problem Active liquidity management by mutual funds in India.
method Examined cash holdings and stock purchases of Indian equity mutual funds.
result Funds with active liquidity choices outperform, highlighting the importance of this strategy.

Active management is a term that has many meanings and we have found the defining characteristics needed for success as an "active manager" elusive within the literature. In this paper we offer a set of criteria that defines an active manager and his success. In order to facilitate this, we introduce several definition…

2019-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop a simple stock selection model to explain why active equity managers tend to underperform a benchmark index. We motivate our model with the empirical observation that the best performing stocks in a broad market index often perform much better than the other stocks in the index. Randomly selecting a subset o…

2015-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores portfolio management strategies to maximize alpha and minimize beta.

problem Maximizing returns while minimizing risk in investment portfolios.
method Examines asset allocation, diversification, active management, and risk management strategies.
result Combining these strategies optimizes portfolio performance.

The study analyzes ETFs' portfolio optimization and tail-risk management.

problem Analyzing the performance of actively managed ETFs in managing risk and diversification.
method Daily Bloomberg data for 30 funds, evaluating various strategies under long-only and long-short constraints.
result Tangency-type portfolios generally outperform buy-and-hold benchmarks, while minimum-variance and CVaR-minimizing portfolios sacrifice upside for downside control.

Study finds stock selection ability of Chinese mutual funds is better than asset allocation ability.

problem Evaluating the performance of actively managed mutual funds in China.
method Developed performance measures for asset allocation and selection using holding-based models and compared them with Fama-French and Treynor-Mazuy models.
result Stock selection ability from holding-based models is positively correlated with Fama-French model, while industry allocation is positively correlated with Treynor-Mazuy model.

Paper discusses how financial institutions' model risk management can benefit academic research.

problem Improving academic research process and mitigating limitations.
method Adopting financial institutions' model risk management practices.
result Lessons from financial institutions can enhance academic research reliability.

Study shows mutual funds add little value for uninformed investors.

problem Understanding the performance of actively managed equity mutual funds for uninformed investors.
method Constructed a reference portfolio using prices and supply information, analyzed various subsets of funds, and compared to market index.
result Mutual funds provide insignificant alpha for uninformed investors, with negative and significant alpha when compared to the market index.

Study shows big winner stocks significantly impact passive and active investment strategies.

problem Impact of big winner stocks on passive and active investment strategies.
method Numerical and analytical techniques applied to historical stock price data.
result Concentrated portfolios underperform equally weighted indexes due to missing big winner stocks.

Smartphones have been the most popular and widely used devices among means of communication. Nowadays, human activity recognition is possible on mobile devices by embedded sensors, which can be exploited to manage user behavior on mobile devices by predicting user activity. To reach this aim, storing activity character…

2020-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a continuous-time model for inventory management with Markov modulated non-stationary demands. We introduce active learning by assuming that the state of the world is unobserved and must be inferred by the manager. We also assume that demands are observed only when they are completely met. We first derive t…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Risk assessment is a major challenge for supply chain managers, as it potentially affects business factors such as service costs, supplier competition and customer expectations. The increasing interconnectivity between organisations has put into focus methods for supply chain cyber risk management. We introduce a gener…

2019-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Turnover-adjusted IR is always lower than classic IR, suggesting managers can improve performance by limiting turnover.

problem The classic relationship between IR and its determinants does not account for turnover costs.
method Mathematical derivations and simulations considering volatility of information coefficient and portfolio turnover.
result Turnover-adjusted IR is lower and managers can improve performance by limiting turnover.

Study uses ML to analyze how interest rates affect fund returns, finding gradient boosting is effective.

problem Understanding how interest rate changes impact fund returns.
method Combines Machine Learning and causal inference, using Double Machine Learning framework.
result Gradient boosting is useful for predicting fund returns, showing a significant negative effect of interest rate increases.

dYdX updates liquidity provider incentives to enhance trading efficiency.

problem Incentivizing liquidity providers to maintain efficient market structures.
method Analyzed various metrics (makerVolume, depths, spreads) and used historical trades to update the LP Incentives Programme.
result Updated the LP Incentives Programme to encourage more active and efficient liquidity.

Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is an optical amplifier/repeater device used to boost the intensity of optical signals being carried through a fiber optic communication system. A highly accurate EDFA model is important because of its crucial role in optical network management and optimization. The input channels of…

2019-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

ARMS automates fraud detection rules to improve efficiency and accuracy.

problem Maintaining effective fraud detection rules over time and reducing manual review.
method ARMS uses heuristic search and a user-defined loss-function to optimize and manage rules.
result ARMS can maintain original systems' performance with only a fraction of the rules.

In financial asset management, choosing a portfolio requires balancing returns, risk, exposure, liquidity, volatility and other factors. These concerns are difficult to compare explicitly, with many asset managers using an intuitive or implicit sense of their interaction. We propose a mechanism for learning someone's s…

2017-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Automates detection of fast-ramped flexibility events for DSOs.

problem Monitoring and supervising flexibility activations in power systems.
method Unsupervised detection and open-set classification.
result Automatically identifies critical flexibility activations for early intervention.

The way developers collaborate inside and particularly across teams often escapes management's attention, despite a formal organization with designated teams being defined. Observability of the actual, organically formed engineering structure provides decision makers invaluable additional tools to manage their talent p…

2019-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces a new divergence for portfolio management to outperform a benchmark.

problem Maximizing expected utility of outperformance over a benchmark with constraints.
method Uses αα-Bregman-Wasserstein divergence to penalize underperformance more than overperformance.
result Proves existence and uniqueness of optimal portfolio strategy and conditions for constraints binding.

We prove that the Omega measure, which considers all moments when assessing portfolio performance, is equivalent to the widely used Sharpe ratio under jointly elliptic distributions of returns. Portfolio optimization of the Sharpe ratio is then explored, with an active-set algorithm presented for markets prohibiting sh…

2015-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces a new financial market for environmental indices to attract investors.

problem Inherent risks and sustainability concerns in environmental investments.
method Quantitative measures, econometric analysis, dynamic asset pricing tools, and financial options.
result Monetization and construction of country-specific environmental indices as dollar-denominated assets.

A new method prioritizes project risks using Monte Carlo Simulation.

problem Determining the relative importance of project risks.
method Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) for quantitative prioritization.
result Differentiates critical risks based on their impact on project duration and cost.