Is Commodity Index Investing Profitable? [PDF]
Using a comprehensive dataset of first-, second-, and third-generation commodity indices, we investigate the potential diversification benefits in equity-bond portfolios. The results show that first-generation commodity indices are outperformed by enhanced indices.
Tobias Fethke, Marcel Prokopczuk
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Abstract A profitability index for evaluation of sires on predicted lifetime production of daughters and their progeny was developed from sire evaluations for milk yield, fat yield, and stay ability. Indexes of milk and stayability for first lactations were used to calculate proofs for stayability in later lactations.
Jorn Bakker +2 more
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A New Look on the Profitability of Fixed and Indexed Mortgage Products [PDF]
This study presents a novel approach to analyzing the present value of total profit for fixed and indexed mortgage products in order to determine the optimal mortgage interest rate that would maximize the bank’s expected total profit based on applying the approach used in operations research to the field of finance.
Paoyu Huang +3 more
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Are Options on Index Futures Profitable for Risk Averse Investors? Empirical Evidence [PDF]
ABSTRACTAmerican options on the S&P 500 index futures that violate the stochastic dominance bounds of Constantinides and Perrakis (2009) from 1983 to 2006 are identified as potentially profitable trades. Call bid prices more frequently violate their upper bound than put bid prices do, while violations of the lower bounds by ask prices are ...
George A. Constantinides +3 more
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A Transactions Data Test of Stock Index Futures Market Efficiency and Index Arbitrage Profitability
ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the efficiency of the market for stock index futures and the profitability of index arbitrage for The Chicago Board of Trade's Major Market Index contracts. The spot value of the index is computed with transactions prices for the component shares of the index obtained from the Fitch database.
Y. Peter Chung
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Profitability of simple technical trading rules of Chinese stock exchange indexes [PDF]
Although technical trading rules have been widely used by practitioners in financial markets, their profitability still remains controversial. We here investigate the profitability of moving average (MA) and trading range break (TRB) rules by using the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index (SHCI) from May 21, 1992 through December 31, 2013 and ...
Hong Zhu +3 more
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THE STUDY OF IMPACT OF FACTORS ON PROFITABILITY INDEX OF RECONSTRUCTION OF THE DWELLINGS
The article deals with the study of impact of organizational and technological factors on the index of recon-struction profitability of dwellings of first mass series on condition of habitants’ eviction while doing operations. We find lack of information on the methodology of the study of such objects in informative sources . Factual dwellings’
Т. Dubelt
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Relationship between dairy cow genetic merit and profit on commercial spring calving dairy farms [PDF]
Because not all animal factors influencing profitability can be included in total merit breeding indices for profitability, the association between animal total merit index and true profitability, taking cognisance of all factors associated with costs ...
G. Ramsbottom +3 more
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EFFICIENCY INDICES OF INVESTMENT IN IT PROJECTS WITH EQUAL LIVES [PDF]
Theoretical results not always give an unambiguous answer regarding the preference of using the indices of efficiency of investment in IT projects with equal lives.
BOLUN, Ion, GHETMANCENCO, Svetlana
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A holistic approach to enhance reliability and profitability through reliable efficiency index optimization and renewable energy integration. [PDF]
Alizadeh H +3 more
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