Session 18: Portfolio Management: Capital Market Theory and the Portfolio Management Process Reading 70: The Portfolio Management Process and the Investment Policy Statement
LOS e: Explain how capital market expectations and the investment policy statement help influence the strategic asset allocation decision, and discuss how an investor's investment time horizon may influence the investor's strategic asset allocation.
Horace Cline buys large-cap stocks and shorts S& 500 Index futures. What investment strategy does Cline practice?
Cline uses index futures, but that does not make him an indexer. By purchasing stocks and shorting the index, Cline is trying to take the index’s movements out of the equation, leveraging the alpha from his stock picks. He is an active manager. We do not have enough information to determine whether Cline is a growth or value investor. |