Full text

Turn on search term navigation

Copyright Mackenzie Presbyterian University Mar/Apr 2014

Abstract

The modern portfolio theory is based on the idea that diversification of a portfolio results in a better relationship between risk and return. Recently, managers have tried to extend the diversification of their portfolios by investing in fund of funds that, in turn, already contains diversified portfolios. The performance of these portfolios of investment funds will be compared with the performance of the naive equally weighted portfolio, the Ibovespa index and the fixed income index, IRF-M. To obtain optimal portfolios, restricted to short selling, the authors determine an optimization problem of portfolios composed of 388 Brazilian hedge funds over five years traded in the Brazilian market. For modeling of the covariance matrix of returns of 388 funds is used a heteroscedastic factorial parsimonious model. In particular, the results based on robust statistical tests indicate that the Sharpe ratio (SR) of the mean-variance portfolios and that of the minimum-variance portfolios were statistically different compared to the SR of the benchmark index in all portfolio re-balancing frequencies used in the paper.

Details

Title
SELEÇÃO DE CARTEIRAS COM MODELOS FATORIAIS HETEROCEDÁSTICOS: APLICAÇÃO PARA FUNDOS DE FUNDOS MULTIMERCADOS
Author
Caldeira, João Frois; Moura, Guilherme Valle; Santos, André Alves Portela; Tessari, Cristina
Pages
127-161
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Mar/Apr 2014
Publisher
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
ISSN
15186776
e-ISSN
16786971
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English, Spanish, Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
1530407228
Copyright
Copyright Mackenzie Presbyterian University Mar/Apr 2014