Kent Smetters Presentation
A Sharper Ratio: A General Measure for Ranking
Investment Risks
Kent Smetters1 Xingtan Zhang2
1The Wharton School and NBER
2The Wharton School
March 2015
Disclaimer
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Size of active and passive indexing
Rebalancing occurs at a higher frequency than risk measurement
Mismatch of trading – risk intervals under-explored
Example Baseline: 50 / 50 portfolio [1]
Example Baseline: 50 / 50 portfolio [2]
Example Baseline: 50 / 50 portfolio [3]
Andy Lo’s “Capital Decimation Partners”
But, you don’t invest in those strategies, right?
Simple trading rule [1]
Simple trading rule [2]
Simple trading rule [3]
Simple trading rule [4]
Simple trading rule [5]
Simple trading rule [6]
Myth 1: “Max drawdown” is informative
Myth 2: Multidimension Risk Management [1]
Myth 2: Multidimension Risk Management [2]
Myth 2: Multidimension Risk Management [3]
Myth 3: Higher moments are hard to estimate [1]
Myth 3: Higher moments are hard to estimate [2]
Toward a Summary Statistic
Sharpe Ratio [1]
Sharpe Ratio [2]
Sharpe Ratio [3]
Sharpe Ratio [4]
Sharpe Ratio [5]
But when Sharpe Ratio is not valid, it often “breaks, not bends”
Sharpe Ratio [5]
Past Attempts to Extend SR [1]
Past Attempts to Extend SR [2]
Our approach: Solve the original truncated Taylor problem [1]
Our approach: Solve the original truncated Taylor problem [2]
New Measure [1]
New Measure [2]
New Measure [3]
New Measure [4]
“1. Independent of wealth” [1]
“5. Ranking depends on r” [1]
“5. Ranking depends on r” [2]
“5. Ranking depends on r” [3]
Summary and Intuition [1]
Summary and Intuition [2]
Concern 1: Does qH N (tY ;b) work with little data? [1]
Concern 2: Is qH N (tY ;b) score too complicated? [1]
Concern 2: Is qH N (tY ;b) score too complicated? [2]
Concern 2: Is qH N (tY ;b) score too complicated? [3]
Application 1: Ranking Smart Betas
Market Cap Weighting
Market Cap vs. Equal, Div, and Fund
Adding Commercial Indices [1]
Adding Commercial Indices [2]
Intuition and Punchline
Application 2: Active Manager Selection [1]
Application 2: Active Manager Selection [2]
Application 2: Manager Selection [3]
Application 3: Multi-Asset Portfolio Optimization [1]
Application 3: Multi-Asset Portfolio Optimization [2]
Application 4: Is Piketty’s Endowment Example Right?
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Works Cited in Talk I
