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The total benefit of alternative assets to pension fund portfolios

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  • Jens Carsten Jackwerth

    (Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Germany)

  • Anna Slavutskaya

    (Graduate School of Decision Sciences, University of Konstanz, Germany)

Abstract

Pension funds only quite recently have explored alternative assets, prodded by financial crises which devastated equity returns and led to low bond returns. We assess the addition of alternative assets to pension fund portfolios in terms of the total benefit derived from diversification, addition of positive skewness, and the elimination of left tails in returns. During 1994‐2012, adding portfolios of hedge funds has produced significantly higher total benefits than adding real estate, commodities, foreign equities, mutual funds, or funds of funds. Conditioning on past total benefits improves the out‐of‐sample performance even further as total benefits are more persistent than alpha.

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  • Jens Carsten Jackwerth & Anna Slavutskaya, 2016. "The total benefit of alternative assets to pension fund portfolios," Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz 2016-06, Department of Economics, University of Konstanz.
    • Handle: RePEc:knz:dpteco:1606
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    Keywords

    Hedge Funds; Pension Funds; Performance Measurement; Certainty Equivalent; Alpha;
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    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

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