A performance measure of Zero-dollar Long/Short equally weighted portfolios

Monica Billio, Ludovic Calès and Dominique Guegan ()
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Dominique Guegan: Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne - Paris School of Economics, https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/dominique-guegan

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Abstract: Sharpe-like ratios have been traditionally used to measure the performances of portfolio managers. However, they suffer two intricate drawbacks (1) they are relative to a perr's performance and (2) the best score is generally assumed to correspond to a "good" portfolio allocation, with no guarantee on the goodness of this allocation. In this paper, we propose a new measure to quantify the goodness of an allocation and we show how to estimate this measure in the case of the strategy used to track the momentum effect, namely the Zero-Dollar Long/Short Equally Weighted (LSEW) investment strategy. Finally, we show how to use this measure to timely close the positions of an invested portfolio

Keywords: Portfolio management; performance measure; generalized hyperbolic distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C44 C46 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2010-03
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Working Paper: A Performance Measure of Zero-Dollar Long/Short Equally Weighted Portfolios (2010)
Working Paper: A Performance Measure of Zero-Dollar Long/Short Equally Weighted Portfolios (2010)
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