Investing Amid Low Expected Returns

Informationen zum Autor ANTTI ILMANEN, PHD, is Principal and Global Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group at AQR Capital Management. He advises institutional investors and develops AQR's high-level investment ideas. He is the author of Expected Returns and a recipient of the Graham and Dodd award, the Harry M. Markowitz Special Distinction Award, and multiple Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy awards. Klappentext PRAISE FOR Investing Amid Low Expected Returns"Call it secular stagnation, low neutral rates or hyper liquidity, we are in a very different interest rate era than most of us grew up in. Few, if any, financial questions are more important than what it all means for investment strategy. This important book is the best take that has yet appeared."-- LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University, Former Secretary of the Treasury and Director of the National Economic Council"Don't let the title sway you, this book is foundational investing in every return environment. It is filled with solid investment wisdom that will help all investors build a resilient portfolio and stay the course. The core tenets of investment beliefs, portfolio construction, managing risks, and minimizing costs have withstood the test of time. This is a book for all markets and all investors."--CHRISTOPHER AILMAN, Chief Investment Officer, CalSTRS"Antti has earned the right to be called one of investing's great practical empiricists. If a research paper has value, he has found it and incorporated it into his comprehensive, well-structured toolkit. He clearly states what is known well and where humility is required. Investment practitioners everywhere need this book."--JASE AUBY, Chief Investment Officer, Teacher Retirement System of Texas"Timeless advice for uncertain times. A rare combination of being both erudite and accessible."-- EDWIN CASS, Chief Investment Officer, Total Fund Management, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board"Antti has written an important book addressing the most critical challenge to investing for retirement - low prospective returns for the key asset classes. Reviewing extensive histories with humility and experienced judgment, Antti comes up with a balanced and yet optimistic outlook. Reasonable return streams remain for investors to diversify into; however, patience and good risk control will be required. This book is an encouraging read for investors!"-- JEFFREY PICHET JAENSUBHAKIJ, Group CIO, GIC"I often describe Antti's previous book, Expected Returns, as the encyclopedia of empirical research of investment management. More than a decade later, Antti has once again written the quintessential guide to navigating the challenging low-return and high-volatility market environment that may lie ahead. He shares his deep understanding and insights into the various components driving returns and provides a clear framework to guide investors in constructing a portfolio to weather the storm."-- YU (BEN) MENG, Chair of Asia-Pacific of Franklin Templeton and former CIO of CalPERS"Antti provides a vital update to the canonical toolkit he presented in Expected Returns. The new book has even broader coverage, yet is more succinct. Investors who read this book will leave with a straightforward risk-return framework, a well-considered set of investment beliefs, a list of bad habits to avoid, and empirically good practices to follow. This book is the foundation of solid portfolio management for institutional and retail investors."-- LARRY SWEDROE, Chief Research Officer, Buckingham Wealth Partners Zusammenfassung Elevate your game in the face of challenging market conditions with this eye-opening guide to portfolio managementInvesting Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least provides an evidence-based blueprint for successful investing when decades of market tailwinds are turning into headwinds...

Autorentext

ANTTI ILMANEN, PHD, is Principal and Global Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group at AQR Capital Management. He advises institutional investors and develops AQR's high-level investment ideas. He is the author of Expected Returns and a recipient of the Graham and Dodd award, the Harry M. Markowitz Special Distinction Award, and multiple Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy awards.

Klappentext

Elevate your game in the face of challenging market conditions with this eye-opening guide to portfolio management Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least provides an evidence-based blueprint for successful investing when decades of market tailwinds are turning into headwinds. For a generation, falling yields and soaring asset prices have boosted realized returns. However, this past windfall leaves retirement savers and investors now facing the prospect of record-low future expected returns. Emphasizing this pressing challenge, the book highlights the role that timeless investment practices - discipline, humility, and patience - will play in enabling investment success. It then assesses current investor practices and the body of empirical evidence to illuminate the building blocks for improving long-run returns in today's environment and beyond. It concludes by reviewing how to put them together through effective portfolio construction, risk management, and cost control practices. In this book, readers will also find: The common investor responses so far to the low expected return challenge Extensive empirical evidence on the critical ingredients of an effective portfolio: major asset class premia, illiquidity premia, style premia, and alpha Discussions of the pros and cons of illiquid investments, factor investing, ESG investing, risk mitigation strategies, and market timing Coverage of the whole top-down investment process - throughout the book endorsing humility in tactical forecasting and boldness in diversification Ideal for institutional and active individual investors, Investing Amid Low Expected Returns is a timeless resource that enables investing with serenity even in harsher financial conditions.

Inhalt

Foreword by Cliff Asness xiii Part I: Setting the Stage 1 Chapter 1 Introduction 3 1.1. Serenity Prayer and Low Expected Returns 3 1.2. Outline of This Book 6 1.3. On Investment Beliefs 11 Chapter 2 The Secular Low Expected Return Challenge 15 2.1. Broad Context 15 2.2. Rearview-Mirror Expectations, Discount Rate Effect, and Low Expected Returns 17 2.3. How Low Are "Riskless" Long-term Yields from a Historical Perspective? 21 2.4. Decadal Perspective on Investment Returns 24 Chapter 3 Major Investor Types and Their Responses to This Challenge 27 3.1. Three Broad Investor Types 28 3.2. History of Institutional Asset Allocation 33 3.3. How Has the Low Expected Return Challenge Hurt Various Investor Types? 42 3.4. How Are Investors Responding to the Low Expected Return Challenge? 45 Part II: Building Blocks of Long-Run Returns 49 Chapter 4 Liquid Asset Class Premia 51 4.1. Riskless Cash Return 52 4.2. Equity Premium 55 4.3. Bond Risk Premium 69 4.4. Credit Premium 74 4.5. Commodity Premium 81 Chapter 5 Illiquidity Premia 87 5.1. Illiquid Alternative/Private Assets 88 5.2. Less Liquid Public Assets 101 5.3. Liquidity Provision Strategies 102 Chapter 6 Style Premia 105 6.1. Value and Other Contrarian Strategies 109 6.2. Momentum and Other Extrapolative Strategies 117 6.3. Carry and Other Income Strategies 124 6.4. Defensive and Other Low-Risk/ Quality Strategies 131 Chapter 7 Alpha and Its Cousins 139 7.1. Alpha and Active Returns 139 7.2. Reviewing the Classification of Portfolio Return Sources 146 7.3. Demystifying Hedge Funds, Superstars, and Other Active Managers 147 Chapter 8 Theories Explaining Long-run Return Sources 151 8.1. Rational Reward for Risk or Irrational Mispricing? 152 8.2. "Bad Returns in Bad Times" at the Heart of Risk Premia 153 8.3. Other Core Ideas for Rational…