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- Managing Up, Down, Superstars, Bozos -- and Alphas
- Managing Up, Down, Superstars, Bozos -- and AlphasThanks for that link on SuperstarsThat article on the myths of superstars' performance was a great read. It'll warm the hearts of team-oriented managers everywhere.RE: Managing Up, Down, Superstars, Bozos -- and AlphasI enjoyed the link on selling. Managing up is a...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
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- Managing Up, Down, Superstars, Bozos -- and Alphas
- Many people learn instinctively the importance of managing up -- that is, keeping your boss in the loop, in your corner, and under control. More difficult and subtle is the art and science of managing peers, subordinates, different generations, geniuses, and jerks. To varying degrees, all have...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Value Strategies: Market Hedge and Performance Edge
- The past five years qualifies as nearly a lifetime of experience in market behavior. Overall, investment styles behaved according to preconceptions. Growth soared when the market roared, and Value showed its toughness during the market slump. While this may have satisfied general expectations of style behavior, it didn't prevent unpleasant...
- White papers 2001-07-01
- Stock Returns Are Predictable: A Firm Level Analysis
- This paper studies return predictability at the firm level through the performance of investment strategies that use conditioning information to build unconditional efficient portfolios from individual stocks. The model that generates moments for portfolio selection is a multivariate regression of excess returns on asset pricing factors with alphas and betas...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Absolute-return managers play the field to find alpha; Quant firms make more tactical bets, avoid relying on only one strategy.
- Byline: Joel Chernoff One source of alpha no longer is good enough: Managers offering absolute-return strategies that amass gains from a host of different alphas are all the rage. At the top of the heap is Bridgewater Associates Inc., Westport, ...
- Research articles 2005-08-22
- Portfolio Strategy: Alpha-beta split gains favor from big plans.(News)
- Byline: Joel Chernoff NEW YORK - The nation's biggest pension funds are separating their alphas from their betas. In a survey of executives at 120 of the top 350 U.S. pension funds, JPMorgan Asset Management found that 41% of pension funds alrea...
- Research articles 2005-05-16
- Performance Persistence for Mutual Funds: Academic Evidence
- Measuring the persistence of Mutual funds performance has been the goal of many academic studies for the last three decades. Managers of actively managed portfolios are expected to consistently outperform a benchmark. To demonstrate their ability in generating excess returns (i.e., positive alphas), money managers have to rely on their...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Performance Of Best Of Breed Mutual Funds: Academic Evidence
- Article talks about the managers of actively managed portfolios who are supposed to outperform a benchmark and each other. To demonstrate their ability in generating excess returns (i.e., positive alphas) money managers have to rely on their past performance. Those who invest with managers and those who evaluate money managers...
- White papers 2001-06-19
- Performance Evaluation of Hedge Funds With Option-based and Buy-and-Hold Strategies
- Since hedge fund returns exhibit non-linear option-like exposures to standard asset classes (Fung and Hsieh (1997a, 2000a)), traditional linear factor models offer limited help in evaluating the performance of hedge funds. It proposes a general asset class factor model comprising of excess returns on passive option-based strategies and on buy-and-hold...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- The Performance of Mutual Funds: Academic Evidence
- Measuring the persistence of Mutual funds performance has been the goal of many academic studies for the last three decades. Managers of actively managed portfolios are expected to consistently outperform a benchmark. To demonstrate their ability in generating excess returns (i.e., positive alphas), money managers have to rely on their...
- White papers 2003-04-25
- The Risk in Hedge Fund Strategies: Alternative Alphas and Alternative Betas
- Hedge fund managers typically transact in similar asset markets to those used by conventional fund managers. Yet, there is much documented evidence that hedge funds have different return characteristics than those of conventional asset class managers. Some authors have attributed this apparent dilemma to the skill-based nature of hedge fund...
- White papers 2003-06-02
- Do Stock Prices Really Reflect Fundamental Values? The Case of REITs
- Real estate investment trust REIT stock prices deviate substantially from net asset values NAV. Using REIT data since 1990, the paper finds large positive excess returns to a strategy of buying stocks that trade at a discount to NAV, and shorting stocks trading at a premium to NAV. Estimated alphas...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Mutual Fund Performance With Learning Across Funds
- This paper is based on the premise that knowledge about the alphas of one set of funds influences an investor's beliefs about other funds. This is true insofar as an investor's expectation about the performance of a fund is partly a belief about the abilities of mutual fund managers as...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- The Conditional CAPM Does Not Explain Asset-Pricing Anamolies
- Recent studies suggest that the conditional CAPM might hold, period-by-period, and that time-varying betas can explain the failures of the simple, unconditional CAPM. The paper argues, however, that significant departures from the unconditional CAPM would require implausibly large time-variation in betas and expected returns. Thus, the conditional CAPM is unlikely...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- DEC unveils two Alphas in PCI, embedded drive - Peripheral Component Interconnect - introduces 21066 and 21068 Alpha microprocessors - Product Announcement
- MAYNARD, MASS. - Digital Equipment Corp. last week spun out two new Alpha AXP microprocessors - one incorporating the Peripheral Component Interconnect PCI local bus on-chip to target $3,000-range PCs running Microsoft's Windows NT and another positioned as a high-end embedded version targeting Motorola's entrenched MPU market for single-board computers.
- Research articles 1993-09-13
- J.P. Morgan and RiskMetrics - Brief Article
- Define and monitor the impact of market risks on pension plan assets, liabilities and surplus with PensionManager 1.0, from investment bank J.P. Morgan and RiskMetrics. This tool specifically addresses riskmanagement for events in the immediate horizon and for up to three years. Features include categorization of assets by manager alphas...
- Research articles 2000-09-01
- DEC readies 225/275MHz Alphas - DEC's Alpha 21064A-225 and 21064A-275 microprocessors - Product Announcement
- MAYNARD, MASS.--Digital Equipment Corp. this week will announce 225 and 275 MHz versions of its Alpha AXP microprocessors--the first members in the family to be manufactured using a 0.5 micron, 3.3-volt, four-layer metal CMOS process. The 21064A-225 is expected to sample in December, priced at $877 in 5,000-unit quantities,...
- Research articles 1993-10-18
- Macromedia Launches Macromedia Labs to Provide Early Access to Emerging Technologies; Alpha Versions of Flex 2 Product Line and Flash Player 8.5 Now Available for Download
- ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Macromedia (Nasdaq:MACR) today announced MacromediaR Labs, a new site on macromedia.com for developers to download early versions of Macromedia technologies, share feedback and insight, and help shape the direction of new products and technologies. Beginning today on Macromedia Labs, developers can download the public alphas of Macromedia...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- ALPHA TYPES CAUSE COMMUNICATION CHAOS
- A recently published book from the Harvard Business School Press argues that the alpha male - and female - is alive and well and running the corporate world. But their lack of communication skills can lead to chaos within the organization. According to Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson, the American...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Prominent Alphas
- Michigan Chronicle 08-05-2003 Damon J. Keith has served as a United States Court of Appeals judge for the Sixth Circuit since 1977. Prior to his appointment to the Court of Appeals, he served as chief judge of the United States District Court for the...
- Research articles 2003-08-05
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