Questions tagged [investment]
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Multi-year annualized Sharpe Ratio
I'm taking a quiz, and trying to calculate the annualized Sharpe ratio of 11 years' worth of SPY fund monthly returns vs. a risk free investment return of 1.5%. When I write the function in Excel as <...
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A citizen's life as an investment project (from the State's PoV)
An average citizen's life can be seen as an investment project: the State starts investing into prenatal care, the child's education etc., a young man starts making money and paying taxes (breaks even ...
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Buy side techniques
I was speaking with a friend of mine about what techniques are used for quantitative investment management, and he told me that, when assuming active positions on the market, even in high-frequency ...
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In what way are capital increases usually advertised?
I am currently trying to better understand capital increases and dilution. I came across a few presentations of companies. I am trying to find out, if there are any standards, which are commonly part ...
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Sharpe Ratio for strategies with different rebalancing period
Strategies published in journal papers like SMB, HML, UMD have annualized sharpe ratios around 0.5. These long-short portfolios are formed with monthly rebalance. People who backtest some daily ...
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How would it be possible to use Dynamic Programming to search a space of investment strategies to find an optimum?
As my question states, the problem I am having is finding a sensible way to search a large space. Any help or insight that could be provided would be hugely appreciated.
Currently I am trying to ...
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What is wrong in my investment calculation [closed]
I am thinking to start investing monthly and i am trying to calculate my investment using excel with a compound interest of 5% monthly plus addition of certain amount.
First month investment is 10000 ...
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Parameters variation in fundraising financial model
I have created quite a large financial model in Excel with lots of input parameters which (after all calculations) have an influence on the output business indicators.
Among the input parameters are
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Compute the (Net) Present Value
Let's have a project where we invest 1000 at the beginning of year 1 and 1000 at the beginning of year 2. At the end of year 2 the income is 2200 and the project is closed.
Person A discounted with ...
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Portfolio optimised for diversification and regular yield. How to hedge?
Here is a portfolio optimisation for equity dividend and yield designed to diversify holdings and produce regular monthly returns using only ETFs complete with R code.
http://prescientmuse.blogspot....
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Calculate rate of return of a stock, if there is a buy transaction occurs during the middle of financial year
Currently, I'm implementing a feature of an open source project (https://github.com/yccheok/jstock/issues/7), which requires me to calculate the rate of return of a stock.
Let's take the following ...
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Debt vs. Equity?
What determines whether an investment should be made using debt vs. equity?
For example, startups are often financed with equity, while mortgages are always financed using debt. What characteristics ...
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Discount rate, convertible debt and the effect of time
The way I understand it is that there are three main parameters to a convertible debt investment.
An investment amount
A discount rate
A trigger event
Now under most of the examples I have seen, a ...
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What is Quantitative Investing and how does it differ from Quantitative Trading?
I have worked in quantitative trading for a couple of years so I know what that space is about. I am curious to know what quantitative investing is all about. Based on what I have read and talked to ...
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FRA-Strategy: Make 3-month and 1-year Excess returns comparable
I am trying to analyze an investment strategy that tries to exploit the empirical difference between forward interest rates and realized spot rates. I am using FRAs to capture the difference.
I am ...
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Risk-free rate for ex-post evaluation of investment strategy
When evaluating the strategy ex-post using e.g. Sharpe ratio, what should one use as the risk-free rate? Let's suppose I am using a 1Y sample of weekly returns, sampled between 2012-01-01 and 2012-12-...
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Proof showing that dollar cost averaging always worse than lump sum alternative
I am referring to the article here. In a nutshell the article says that using data based on S&P 500 index going back as far as to 1950, dollar cost averaging is performing worse than a lump sump ...
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True or False? An option's price will always be greater than or equal to its intrinsic value
Since if the option's price is lower than its intrinsic value (eg. strike price - current stock price for puts), then an arbitrage opportunity arises from buying the option at bargain and then ...
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What are some "Must Know" investment/portfolio management theories out there?
What are the most important portfolio management theories you must know in order to competently manage an investment portfolio?
In order to keep the topic focused, I would like to narrow down the set ...
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What are useful indexes for rapid evaluation of country economic risk?
The World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report offers a comprehensive view of individual country risk/reward. There has been an explosion of these types of indexes over the past few years.
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