Asset Allocation and Alternative Investments

Stephen Todd Walker

Chapter 10 in Understanding Alternative Investments, 2014, pp 201-222 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Asset allocation is simply what you have invested in and the weightings an investor assigns to each asset class. “The goal of asset allocation is to get the best possible expected return/risk profile.”1 The majority of professionals in the world of finance believe that asset allocation will affect returns. By diversifying your assets, an investor will presumably lower risk and increase returns. For example, hedge funds can be used to reduce risk and/or possibly increase returns with a foreign or domestic equity index (Table 10.1).

Keywords: Hedge Fund; Private Equity; Pension Plan; Asset Allocation; Portfolio Return (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-37019-8_11

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137370198

DOI: 10.1057/9781137370198_11

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().