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1. Stock-Trak Portfolio Report Write-Up Guidelines
You may want to follow the guidelines below for the final
report of your Stock-Trak portfolio performance during the
quarter. Your report is not expected to exceed four pages
excluding any tables and appendices.
1. On the first page, replicate the investment policy statement
(IPS) including your asset allocation that you submitted to the
instructor.
2. Explain the funds allocation among different assets that you
actually choose in your Stock-Trak portfolio. If your actual
asset allocation is different from the allocation in your policy
statement, explain the rationale for changing your asset
allocations. Here you may think of strategic asset allocation and
tactical asset allocation strategies that we discussed in chapter
16.
3. Provide your rationale for selecting the particular securities
such as stock, mutual funds, ETFs, bonds, bond funds, real
estate funds, etc. for your Stock-Trak portfolio. That is, explain
why you considered these securities to be the most suitable in
meeting your return-risk goals and asset allocations in the
investment policy statement. You may use the portfolio
investment philosophies and strategies from chapter 16 such as
passive strategies, indexing, top-down approach, style-based
strategies, asset attributes-based strategies, and technical
analysis in your explanation (see chapter 16 and Exhibit 16.6).
4. Compare the performance of your portfolio relative to a
relevant benchmark you stated in your policy statement. If you
did not list a benchmark in your IPS, you may use a broader
well-known benchmark such as S&P 500 or NADAQ composite,
or create and use a hybrid benchmark of stock and bond markets
(weighted average of the returns of a stock market index and
bond market index).
5. Describe what worked and what did not work in your Stok-
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Passive versus Active Management
Total Portfolio Return
The total actual return on any equity portfolio can be
decomposed into:
Expected return
Alpha
The Equation
8. Index Portfolio Construction Techniques
Full Replication
All securities in the index are purchased in proportion to
weights in the index
This helps ensure close tracking
Increases transaction costs, particularly with dividend
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Tracking Error and Index Portfolio Construction
The goal of the passive manager should be to minimize the
portfolio’s return volatility relative to the index, i.e., to
minimize tracking error
Tracking Error Measure
Return differential in time period t
16. Methods of Index Portfolio Investing
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Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF)
EFTs are depository receipts that give investors a pro rata claim
on the capital gains and cash flows of the securities that are
held in deposit by a financial institution that issued the
certificates
A significant advantage of ETFs over index mutual funds is that
they can be bought and sold (and short sold) like common stock
The notable example of ETFs
25. Technical Strategies
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Contrarian Investment Strategy
The belief that the best time to buy (sell) a stock is when the
majority of other investors are the most bearish (bullish) about
it
The concept of mean reverting
The overreaction hypothesis (Exhibit 16.9)
30. Tax Efficiency and Active Equity Management
Active portfolio managers especially need to consider taxes
when deciding whether to sell or hold a stock whose value has
increased
If a security is sold at a profit, capital gains are paid and less in
left in the portfolio to reinvest
A new security (the reinvestment security) needs to have a
superior return sufficient to make up for these taxes
The size of the expected return depends on the expected holding
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Value versus Growth
A growth investor focuses on the current and future economic
“story” of a company, with less regard to share valuation
A value investor focuses on share price in anticipation of a
39. Does Style Matter?
Choice to align with investment style communicates information
to clients
Determining style is useful in measuring performance relative
to a benchmark
43. Asset Allocation Strategies
Selecting an Active Allocation Method
Perceptions of variability in the client’s objectives and
constraints
Perceived relationship between the past and future capital
market conditions