RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Alternative Investments in the Institutional Portfolio
JF The Journal of Alternative Investments
FD Institutional Investor Journals
SP 11
OP 25
DO 10.3905/jai.2000.318962
VO 3
IS 3
A1 Vassilios N. Karavas
YR 2000
UL https://pm-research.com/content/3/3/11.abstract
AB This study provides an update of an earlier analysis (Schneeweis and Spurgin, [1999]) of the risk and return benefits of various hedge funds and managed futures investments as stand-alone investments or as part of an investor's diversified stock/bond portfolio. Both traditional Markowitz efficient frontiers with and without investment restrictions as well as the risk and return performance of portfolios constructed from adding alternative investments to established U.S. stock and bond portfolios are evaluated. The Markowitz efficient frontier determination is conducted using alternative methods of risk and return forecasting including 1) historical returns, and 2) the construction of ex ante return forecasts in which expected returns are based on their historical return to risk relationship; that is, ex ante return forecasts are constructed from cross-sectional OLS regressions of historical return on historical variance and are used as inputs into the Markowitz portfolio optimization model. The latter approach reduces the impact of historically high (low) abnormal returns from influencing the allocation process.