scholarly journals Art as an Asset: Evidence from Keynes the Collector

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chambers ◽  
Elroy Dimson ◽  
Christophe Spaenjers
Keyword(s):  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
Performance Benchmarking ◽  
Risk Return ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Price Indexes ◽  
Investor Returns ◽  
Editorial Decision

Abstract The risk-return characteristics of art as an asset have been previously studied through aggregate price indexes. By contrast, we examine the long-run buy-and-hold performance of an actual portfolio, namely, the collection of John Maynard Keynes. We find that its performance has substantially exceeded existing estimates of art market returns. Our analysis of the collection identifies general attributes of art portfolios crucial in explaining why investor returns can substantially diverge from market returns: transaction-specific risk, buyer heterogeneity, return skewness, and portfolio concentration. Furthermore, our findings highlight the limitations of art price indexes as a guide to asset allocation or performance benchmarking. (JEL B26, C43, G11, G12, G14, Z11) Received: September 7, 2018: Editorial decision: November 24, 2019 by Editor: Nikolai Roussanov

Art and Money

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
William N Goetzmann ◽  
Luc Renneboog ◽  
Christophe Spaenjers
Keyword(s):  
Price Level ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Equity Market ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
Market Index ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Cointegration Tests ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Art Prices

This paper investigates the impact of equity markets and top incomes on art prices. Using a newly constructed art market index, we demonstrate that equity market returns have had a significant impact on the price level in the art market over the last two centuries. We also find evidence that an increase in income inequality may lead to higher prices for art. Finally, the results of Johansen's cointegration tests strongly suggest the existence of a long-run relation between top incomes and art prices.

scholarly journals Risk, return & performance evaluation of selected mutual fund schemes – a study on large & mid cap funds

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-362
Author(s):  
Krunal K Bhuva ◽  
Ashok R. Bantwa
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Risk Return ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Better Than

This paper studies the persistence of mutual fund performance. Academic research oftenfocuses on fund returns. This study intends to examine the performance of selected Large cap and Mid capmutual fund schemes of Indian Mutual fund industry during the study period 2007 to 2011. The performanceof selected schemes is evaluated in terms of average returns, systematic risk, and unsystematic risk and byusing different measures like: Sharpe, Jenson, Treynor and FAMA. After detailed analysis it is found thatexcept two all the sampled schemes have performed better than market. Supporting the establishedrelationship of high risk - high return, better performing schemes are exposed to higher risk. The findings alsorevealed that majority of the schemes were adequately diversified and about 60% of the schemes were able tobeat the market with help of better stock selection skill of fund managers. Finding from the t-test calculationsshows that there is no difference between returns from large cap mid cap mutual funds in long run. From thereturn comparison of mutual funds and market, in 2008 & 2011 large cap are underperforming than marketand in 2011 only mid cap mutual funds are showing less return than market returns.

scholarly journals Sector Volatility Spillover and Economic Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from China’s Stock Market

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1411
Author(s):  
Xiaqing Su ◽  
Zhe Liu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Volatility Spillover ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Transmission Structure ◽  
Long Term Impact

Following generalized variance decomposition, we identify the transmission structure of financial shock among ten sectors in China. Then, we examine whether economic policy uncertainty (EPU) affects it through GARCH-MIDAS regression. We find that consumer discretionary, industrials, and materials sectors are systemically important industries during the sample period. Further research of dynamic analysis shows that each sector acts in a time-varying role in this structure. The results of the GARCH-MIDAS regression indicate that none of the selected EPU indexes has a significant long-term impact on the total volatility spillover of the inter-sector stock market in China. However, the EPUs do affect some sectors’ spillover indexes in the long run, and they are significantly heterogeneous. This paper can provide regulatory suggestions for policymakers and reasonable asset allocation and risk avoidance methods for investors.

scholarly journals The cult of the equity for pension funds: should it get the boot?

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHARLES SUTCLIFFE
Keyword(s):  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Defined Benefit ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Equity Prices ◽  
Risk Return ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Rejection ◽  
The Uk

Over the last half century UK defined benefit pension schemes have followed the cult of the equity by investing a large proportion of their assets in equities. However, since the turn of the millennium this cult has faced two serious challenges – the halving of equity prices, and the complete rejection of equity investment by the Boots pension scheme in 2001. This paper summarises the history of the cult in the UK and the arguments advanced at the time to support its adoption. It then presents the case for the cult (excluding taxation, risk sharing and default insurance). This is followed by a detailed consideration of the validity of this case, including an examination of the relevant empirical evidence. It is concluded that, in the absence of taxation, risk sharing and default insurance, the asset allocation is indeterminate; and depends on the risk-return preferences adopted by the trustees.

scholarly journals Effects of Exchange Rate and Inflation Rate on Stock Market Returns Volatility in India.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nenavath Sre ◽  
Suresh Naik
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
Inflation Rate ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run

Abstract The paper investigates the effect of exchange and inflation rate on stock market returns in India. The study uses monthly, quarterly and annual inflation and exchange rate data obtained from the RBI and market returns computed from the Indian share market index from January, 2000 to June, 2020.The paper uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) co-integration technique and the error correction parametization of the ARDL model for investigating the effect on Indian Stock markets. The GARCH and its corresponding Error Correction Model (ECM) were used to explore the long- and short-run relationship between the India Stock market returns, inflation, and exchange rate. The paper shows that there exists a long term relationship but there is no short-run relationship between Indian market returns and inflation. But, there is periodicity of inflation monthly considerable long run and short-run relationship between them existed. The outcome also illustrates a significant short-run relationship between NSE market returns and exchange rate. The variables were tested for short run and it was significantly shown the positive effects on the stock market returns and making it a desirable attribute of which investors can take advantage of. This is due to the establishment of long-run effect of inflation and exchange rate on stock market returns.

Stock Market Responses to Monetary and Fiscal Policies

2022 ◽  
pp. 266-282
Author(s):  
Elif Erer ◽  
Deniz Erer
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Fiscal Policies ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Monetary Policies ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Stock Market Performance ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Effect Hypothesis ◽  
Positive Effect

This study analyzes the short-run and long-run effects of interaction between fiscal and monetary policies on stock market performance in four emerging Asian economies, which are China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia, by using ARDL model. The study covers the period of 2003:Q1-2020:Q1. The findings from this study show monetary and fiscal policies play an important role in determining stock market returns. Also, the results theoretically support Richardian neutrality hypothesis for China and Indonesia, Keynesian positive effect hypothesis for India, and classical crowding out effect hypothesis for Malaysia, and interest channel of monetary transmission mechanism only for China.

scholarly journals Irrelevance of inflation: The Dow stocks

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Samih Antoine Azar
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Price Index ◽  
Inflation Rate ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Price Indexes ◽  
One To One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Stock Indexes ◽  
Real Assets

The irrelevance of inflation is a proposition, inherited from corporate finance, which states that inflation is irrelevant for the valuation of nominal and real stock prices. In other terms, Net Present Values (NPVs) and stock returns are independent of the inflation rate.  The issue at stake is both theoretical and empirical, although the first came much before the latter. In the empirical realm, stock returns are found to be statistically negatively related to inflation. However, and theoretically, the classical school predicted that they should be related positively one-to-one. Moreover long run analysis, that came later, found that stock prices are positively related to price indexes. This stems from the fact that stocks are claims upon real assets, and, therefore, should be a hedge against inflation with the same one-to-one relation. This paper differs by subjecting all these hypotheses to the individual stocks included in the Dow Jones Industrial Index, and not to returns calculated from stock indexes, which is the usage. The empirical results in this paper support strongly the irrelevance of inflation.  This is true whatever the price index, whatever the econometric procedure, whatever the industry to which the stock belongs, and whatever the specification of the model.  Hence inflation is neither negatively nor positively related to stock returns, whether nominal or real.

scholarly journals Pension Scheme Asset Allocation with Taxation Arbitrage, Risk Sharing and Default Insurance

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1111-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. S. Sutcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Risk Return ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
Arbitrage Risk

ABSTRACTThe asset allocation is a crucial decision for pension funds, and this paper analyses the economic factors which determine this choice. The analysis proceeds on the basis that, in the absence of taxation, risk sharing and default insurance, the asset allocation between equities and bonds is indeterminate and governed by the risk/return preferences of the trustees and the employer. If the employing company and its shareholders are subject to taxation, there is a tax advantage in a largely bond allocation. Risk sharing between the employer and the employees often means that one group favours a high equity allocation, while the other favours a low equity allocation. Underpriced default insurance creates an incentive for a high equity allocation. When taxation, risk sharing and underpriced default insurance are all present, it is concluded that the appropriate asset allocation varies with the circumstances of the scheme; but that a high equity allocation is probably inappropriate for many private sector pension schemes.

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