... how the process of partnering
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The Professional s Handbook of
Financial Risk Management
x The Professional s Handbook of Financial Risk Management
21. SELECTING AND IMPLEMENTING ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGIES ... trade
viii The Professional s Handbook of Financial Risk Management
A portfolio approach to credit risk management 333
Overreliance on statis...
... statisticians
call a “standard deviation” (SD). This can be thought about as the degree of “scatter”
of a series of values about the average. For example, the average height of adult males
is about ... of paper of a certain
face value, purchased at a discount. For example, the Bank of England
might offer a bill with a face value of ten pounds. It could...
... dividends for each year to the present, then add them all up. But
with a few mathematical tricks, this nut is easily cracked.
A Stream of Future Dividends, Forever and Ever, Amen
To paraphrase the famous ... returns are quite accurately predicted by the
Gordon Equation. As I’ve already said, these are essentially the laws
of gravity and planetary motion of the financial...
... DR. For exam-
ple, consider a food company and a car manufacturer, each of which
are expected to have the same average earnings and dividends over
the next 20 years. The earnings and dividends of ... that are easily explained by
the laws of chance.
Are we in Randomovia yet? Almost. If we actually were in
Randomovia, we would find that above-average performance does not
Th...
... size of the fund, the size of the
company, and the total amount transacted. As a first approximation,
assume that it is equal to the spread.
The four layers of mutual fund costs:
ã Expense Ratio
ã ... year.
Put another way, the simple fact that there are so many talented ana-
lysts examining stocks guarantees that none of them will have any
kind of advantage, since...
... practices the lack of historical knowledge is the one that causes
the most damage. Consider, for example, the principals of Long Term
Capital Management, whose ignorance of the vagaries of financial ... time. For this generation, the horses are
already out of the barn, and it may be another 30 years the typical
Let’s get a bit of nomenclature out of the wa...
... regain iton the way
down.Cheap stocks excite onlythe dispassionate, theanalytical,and
theaged.
But by far, the most fascinating aftermath of crashes is the political
and legal kabuki that often follows. ... amounts of capital now available.
There was even a fashionable new technology involved: the laws of
probability. Fermat and Pascal had recently invented this branch of
ma...
... than
all of them?
On top of that, there are tens of thousands of professional investors
using the kind of software, hardware, data, technical support, and
underlying research that you and I can ... next major error that investors make is the assumption that the
immediate past is predictive of the long-term future. Take a look at the
data from the table at the begin...
... were
buoyantthat
year.Then,asnow, tech stocks wereall the rageand trad-
ing volume was high,atleast bythe standardsof the day. Brokersat
other firms,
all ofwhomworked on acommissionbasis, were making
money ... a 1% “trail” fee each year. The ad urges
the magazine’s investment-professional readers to “Find out more
about the annuity that keeps paying and paying and paying ”
A gre...
... funds carry
a sales load of up to 6%, and another 30% carry a 12b-1 annual fee of
up to 1% per year for marketing. The most notorious of these is the
American Skandia ASAF Bernstein (no relation!) ... financialjournalismheap areaselect num-
ber of writers whoare so popular and craftprose so well that they
canget away with a regular output of unvarnishedreality. As we’ve...
... in a taxable account) or for a house down payment, as long as
enough of the bonds are in a taxable account.
Although the central tenet of asset allocation is to consider the per-
formance of ... has a $3,000 minimum.
284 The Four Pillars of Investing
Table 14-1. “Taxable Ted’s” Value Averaging Path (for $500,000 Stock Allocation)
Total Stock Tax-Managed Tax-Man...
... in capital g ains taxes in the early years, as time goes on most
of the accumulated value in the funds would be subject to capital
gains.
If, over the years, an average of 50% of the fund value ... professionals, who are still
emotionally incapable of executing a plan properly—they can talk the
talk, but they cannot walk the walk, no matter how hard they try.
The mos...
... you with the mass of mutu-
al fund statistics and academic studies on the inadequacies
of active management that has accumulated since 2002. I
cannot, alas, resist relating the sad story of Bill ... matter, and the performance of active managers
does not persist. Duh. The laws of arithmetic continue to
apply: since professional investors are the market, in the
aggregat...