Investment Procedures Investment Procedures Almost certainly, the discussion has been at such a high level of generality that it provides little concrete guidance for real investors. After some more similar, general, and abstract discussion of related topics, such as capital asset pricing and risk, we hope to provide some help in translating these general concepts into usable investment procedures. In order to define Markowitz's...more
Measuring Risk In Investment Measuring Risk In Investment It is desirable to measure risk for another reason. In judging the significance of any observed difference in the rates of return on two portfolios, it is desirable to be able to distinguish between differences which can reasonably be attributed to random fluctuations in returns on each portfolio and differences which could only be attributed reasonably to differences in the...more
Investment Bench Mark A better bench mark for evaluating the skill of individual investors in picking stocks would be a combination index of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange. A still better index would include the over-the-counter stocks. A still better one would include bonds and other things. Unfortunately, the official index of the American Stock Exchange is not a value-weighted index, and the index of the over-the-counter stocks is not inclusive or necessarily representative. Click Here To: Protect Your Investments Today! Someone would do the financial community a great service by constructing a value-weighted index that included stocks not on the New York Stock Exchange. In the meantime, investors seeking a bench mark can probably struggle along without major error by using one of the value-weighted indexes for the New York Stock Exchange.An argument can be made for using an index in which each stock receives equal weight. In computing the tables of rates of return on common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Fisher and Lorie gave equal weight to each stock. Such an index provides perhaps the...more
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THE SPECIFICATION OF INVESTMENT POLICY THE SPECIFICATION OF INVESTMENT POLICYInvestment counsellors and trustees do not ignore the choice of investment policy. In fact, they typically produce a written statement of policy and occasionally refer to it. Current practice deserves criti cism not only because of the casual, intuitive process by...more
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