This document discusses the benefits of including both direct real estate (through property acquisitions) and securitized real estate (through REITs) in a mixed-asset pension fund portfolio. It finds that direct real estate provides favorable tax advantages and low correlation to securities markets, while REITs allow access to a portfolio of properties with lower capital requirements. Both direct and securitized real estate have outperformed other asset classes over 10-, 15-, and 20-year periods based on returns. While direct real estate exhibits the lowest volatility, REITs also have lower volatility than stock indices. The author concludes that including both direct real estate and REITs in a portfolio provides better risk-adjusted returns than stocks or bonds alone over
BRAKE DISC ANALYSIS WITH THE HELP OF ANSYS SOFTWAREIAEME Publication
There is lot of upgrade in the technology of the automobile these days. Competition on the speed of vehicles going on in the market. But also this speed leads to accidents if vehicle don’t stop on time. Disc brakes in the vehicles give much better performance compare to drum to stop the vehicle also the heat generated during braking force can be easily dissipated as disc brakes are open to atmosphere. But the main problem is with the material used in the disc brakes in some vehicle. Manufacturers use disc of steel which have short life span and the weight is bulky near the tire.
BRAKE DISC ANALYSIS WITH THE HELP OF ANSYS SOFTWAREIAEME Publication
There is lot of upgrade in the technology of the automobile these days. Competition on the speed of vehicles going on in the market. But also this speed leads to accidents if vehicle don’t stop on time. Disc brakes in the vehicles give much better performance compare to drum to stop the vehicle also the heat generated during braking force can be easily dissipated as disc brakes are open to atmosphere. But the main problem is with the material used in the disc brakes in some vehicle. Manufacturers use disc of steel which have short life span and the weight is bulky near the tire.
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MARK J . P. ANSON, KEITH H. BLACK, HOSSEIN KAZEMI
Alternative
Investments
CAIA Level I
THIRD EDITION
C A I A K N O W L E D G E S E R I E S
PART
One
Introduction to
Alternative Investments
P
art 1 begins with an introduction to alternative investments and a description
of the environment of alternative investing. Chapters 3 to 6 include primers on
quantitative methods, statistics, and nancial economics as they relate to alternative
investments, as well as a chapter on measures of risk and return. The last three chap-
ters of Part 1 discuss performance attribution, hypothesis testing of risk and return,
and multivariate and nonlinear methods. The material is designed to provide a foun-
dation for Parts 2 to 5, which detail each of the four main categories of alternative
investments.
1
2
CHAPTER1
What Is an Alternative Investment?
D
e nitions of what constitutes an alternative investment vary considerably. One
reason for these differences lies in the purposes for which the de nitions are being
used. But de nitions also vary because alternative investing is largely a new eld
for which consensus has not emerged, as well as a rapidly changing eld for which
consensus will probably always remain elusive.
Analyzing these various de nitions provides a useful starting point to under-
standing alternative investments. So we begin this introductory chapter by examining
commonly used methods of de ning alternative investments.
1.1 ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS BY EXCLUSION
Alternative investments are sometimes viewed as including any investment that is not
simply a long position in traditional investments. Typically, traditional investments
include publicly traded equities, xed-income securities, and cash. For example, if a
particular investment (such as private equity) is not commonly covered as equity in
books on investing, then many people would view it as an alternative investment.
The alternative-investments-by-exclusion de nition is overly broad for the pur-
poses of the CAIA curriculum. First, the term investment covers a very broad spec-
trum. A good de nition of an investment is that it is deferred consumption. Any net
outlay of cash made with the prospect of receiving future bene ts might be consid-
ered an investment. So investments can range from planting a tree to buying stocks
to acquiring a college education. As such, a more accurate de nition of alternative
investments requires more speci city than simply that of being nontraditional.
This book and the overall CAIA curriculum are focused on institutional-quality
alternative investments. An institutional-quality investment is the type of investment
that nancial institutions such as pension funds or endowments might include in
their holdings because they are expected to deliver reasonable returns at an accept-
able level of risk. For example, a pension fund would consider holding the publicly
traded equities of a major corporation but may be ...
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As cryptoassets enter the mainstream, index funds are increasingly presenting both retail and institutional investors with the opportunity to gain exposure to the cryptoasset market. In this space, index funds are now being employed to track the activity and performance of specific cryptocurrencies or basket of cryptocurrencies to meet a variety of risk and return objectives of different client types.
As cryptoassets enter the mainstream, index funds are increasingly presenting both retail and institutional investors with the opportunity to gain exposure to the cryptoasset market. In this space, index funds are now being employed to track the activity and performance of specific cryptocurrencies or basket of cryptocurrencies to meet a variety of risk and return objectives of different client types.
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) - Overviewhardiklad93
its all about the REITs an overview. Also includes detail of REITs in global market as well as in Indian context.
Also includes advantage & disadvantage of REITs.
The multifamily real estate sector is famous for having outperformed other sectors in the market, especially during the global economic downturn that began in 2007. With fears of another recession on the horizon, this white paper aims to educate readers on the portfolio stability, tax advantages, and passive income benefits which investing in non-traded REITs can bring to investors at any level of their investing careers.
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Aftermarket Support: How to Create a Liquid Public Stockkeatingcapital
Public companies can enjoy many benefits, particularly significantly higher
valuations and superior access to capital, compared to privately owned
businesses. These benefits are conditional on the existence of a “liquid” market
for the company’s shares. Illiquidity can prevent the stock of a smaller public
issuer from achieving the higher valuations enjoyed by its peers, thereby negating
one of the primary benefits of being public. The goal of any publicly traded
company, therefore, should be to have its stock become widely held, actively
traded, fully valued, and covered by at least one research analyst. But what
exactly do these things mean? This white paper creates a framework for
objectively defining and quantifying these terms and outlines a path to the holy
grail of liquidity.