RT Generic
T1 Must an optimal buy and hold strategy contain any derivative?
A1 Balbás, Alejandro
A1 Balbás, Beatriz
A1 Balbás, Raquel
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto para el Desarrollo Empresarial, 
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AB Consider a portfolio choice problem maximizing the expected return and simultaneously minimizing a general (and frequently coherent) risk measure. This paper shows that every stock (or stock index) is often outperformed by a buy and hold strategy containing some of its derivatives and the underlying stock itself. As a consequence, every investment only containing international benchmarks will not be efficient, and the investors must properly add some derivatives. Though there is still a controversy, this finding had been pointed out in dynamic frameworks, but the novelty is that one does not need to rebalance the portfolio of derivatives before their expiration date. This is very important in practice because transaction costs are sometimes significant when trading derivatives.
SN 1989-8843
YR 2016
FD 2016-11-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/23912
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/23912
LA eng
NO Research partially supported by “Ministerio de Economía” (grant ECO2012 - 39031 - C02 - 01, Spain).
DS e-Archivo
RD 17 jul. 2024