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Risk Budgeting

A New Approach to Investing

Publication Date November 2003
Publisher Risk Books
Product Type Book
Pages 349
ISBN Number 1899332944
Product Code RIS00313
Risk Budgeting
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Summary

  • Make an informed decision about how to implement and execute a 'risk unit allocation' investment policy
  • Analysis of techniques to assess how risk might impact long-term investment returns
  • Introduces methods to allocate assets based on the 'risk unit' exposures - in individual asset classes and on a portfolio basis, to meet long-term pension obligations and investment return objectives
  • Investigates ways to use VAR to accommodate a long-term investment horizon
  • Contributions from leading experts drawn from consultancies; large institutional investors; pension plans; investment banks and academia

Content

  • Introduction
    • Leslie Rahl
  • Part 1: OVERVIEW
    • 1 Risk Budgeting: The next Step of the Risk Management
      • Journey - The Veteran's Prospective
      • Leslie Rahl
    • 2 Crisis and Risk Management
      • Myron Scholes
  • Part 2: Understanding Risk Budgeting
    • 3 Risk Budgeting: Managing Active Risk at the Total Fund Level
      • Kurt Winkelmann
    • 4 The Dangers of Historical Hedge Fund Data
      • Andrew B. Weisman and Jerome Abernathy
    • 5 Value-at-Risk for Asset Managers
      • Christopher L. Culp, Ron Mensink and Andrea M.P. Neves
    • 6 Risk Budgeting fore Pension Funds and Investment
      • Managers using VAR
      • Michelle McCarthy
    • 7 Risk Budgeting for Active Investment Managers
      • Robert Litterman, Jacques Longerstaey, Jacob Rosengarten and Kurt Winkelmann
    • 8 Risk Obsession: Does it Lead to Risk Aversion?
      • Amy B. Hirsch
    • 9 Market Neutral and Hedged Strategies
      • Joseph G. Nicholas
    • 10 The Infrastructure Challenge: Empowering the Stakeholder through the Successful Deployment of Technology and Data
      • Gabriel Bousbib
  • Part 3: Practitioners' Thoughts: Case Studies in Risk Budgeting
    • 11 Risk Budgeting in a Pension Fund
      • Leo de Bever, Wayne Kozun and Barbara Zvan
    • 12 Risk Budgeting with Conditional Risk Tolerance
      • Michael de Marco and Todd E. Petzel
    • 13 VAR for Fund Managers
      • Stephen Rees
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