Each of the building blocks tested in this book are sorted by the value of the factor being tested and then divided into five
equal sized portfolios.
Not exact matches
He measures the attractiveness of adding anomaly premiums to the benchmark
portfolio by comparing Sharpe ratios, Sortino ratios and performances during recessions of five
portfolios: (1) a traditional
portfolio (TP) that equally weights equity, term and default premiums; (2) an
equal weighting of
size, value and momentum premiums (SVM) as a basic anomaly
portfolio; (3) a factor
portfolio (FP) that equally weights all 10 anomaly premiums; (4) a mixed
portfolio (MP) that equally weights all 13 premiums; and, (5) a balanced
portfolio (BP) that equally weights TP and FP.
Equal Weighted Investment Yield assumes a buy at 1/10
portfolio size for each stock that triggers and accounts for stop loss triggers in the trade plan presented to subscribers (i.e. your performance would be better).
The Fund simultaneously sells short an
equal -
sized portfolio of 15 - 35 companies that we believe to be of inferior quality and prospects — those that score highest on the factors that destroy wealth and are expected to deliver below - average investment returns.
No matter whether you prefer no dividends, some dividends, or large dividends, as long as you presume the dividend growth rate
equals the stock price's growth (by extension the growth in earnings), you always end up with a
portfolio of
equal size.
The combination of an
equal -
sized long and a short
portfolio should reduce or remove exposure to the market's direction, including large swings, which explains why such a fund is called a Market Neutral Fund.
Value, Momentum, Quality, Small
Size, and Low Volatility represent factor - based
portfolios that select the companies in the first quintile when ranked from highest to lowest score based on each respective factor, and
equal - weights them.
The higher systematic return of the
equal - weighted
portfolio arises from its higher exposure to the market,
size, and value factors.
For me, the most important part of the study is the finding that «The nonparametric monotonicity relation test indicates that the differences in the total return of the
equal - weighted
portfolio and the value - and price - weighted
portfolios is monotonically related to
size, price, liquidity and idiosyncratic volatility.»
Two notes though, at present I am running with 8 % cash, and Allstate and the Japan Smaller Capitalization fund are roughly 1.5 x the
size of the largely
equal - weighted
portfolio.
I found this showed me the true deviation from the
portfolio target
size and put my holdings on an
equal footing for rebalancing.
Remember, since I don't follow my own advice and thus don't have
equal size positions (sorry Monish, I just haven't gotten there yet), the performance of my personal
portfolio is not exactly reflective of what a
portfolio of equally weighted positions in each of the securities in the model
portfolio might have produced.