Capital Market Expectations: Forecasting Asset Class Returns

Free CFA Level III: Portfolio Management lesson in Asset Allocation. 39 min read, ~5,837 words.

Geometric mean = arithmetic mean minus one-half variance, use geometric for compounding, arithmetic for single-period optimization. Shrinkage estimators pull extreme sample estimates toward a common value, reducing estimation error. Singer-Terhaar adjusts the ICAPM risk premium for market segmentation, partially segmented markets earn premiums between fully integrated and fully segmented. The...

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