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2. Performance attribution - Wikipedia

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   Attribution analysis attempts to distinguish which of the various different factors affecting portfolio performance is the source of the portfolio's overall performance. Specifically, this method compares the total return of the manager's actual investment holdings with the return for a predetermined benchmark portfolio and decomposes the ...

3. Financial statement analysis - Wikipedia

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   Financial statement analysis is a method or process involving specific techniques for evaluating risks, performance, valuation, financial health, and future prospects of an organization. [1] It is used by a variety of stakeholders, such as credit and equity investors, the government, the public, and decision-makers within the organization.

4. Investment performance - Wikipedia

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   Investment performance. Investment performance is the return on an investment portfolio. The investment portfolio can contain a single asset or multiple assets. The investment performance is measured over a specific period of time and in a specific currency. Investors often distinguish different types of return.

5. Financial econometrics - Wikipedia

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   Financial econometrics is a branch of financial economics, in the field of economics. Areas of study include capital markets, [2] financial institutions, corporate finance and corporate governance. Topics often revolve around asset valuation of individual stocks, bonds, derivatives, currencies and other financial instruments.

6. Financial analysis - Wikipedia

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   Past Performance - Across historical time periods for the same firm (the last 5 years for example), Future Performance - Using historical figures and certain mathematical and statistical techniques, including present and future values, This extrapolation method is the main source of errors in financial analysis as past statistics can be poor ...

7. Modern portfolio theory - Wikipedia

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   Modern portfolio theory. Modern portfolio theory ( MPT ), or mean-variance analysis, is a mathematical framework for assembling a portfolio of assets such that the expected return is maximized for a given level of risk. It is a formalization and extension of diversification in investing, the idea that owning different kinds of financial assets ...

8. Quantitative fund - Wikipedia

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   The first quantitative funds were offered as hedge funds and not available to a broad public. The goal of those funds is to earn an absolute return with little constraints and freedom to apply leverage, shorting and derivatives. Mutual fund. With the increasing popularity of quant investing, quant strategies were also wrapped into mutual funds.

9. Fixed-income attribution - Wikipedia

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   Attribution is therefore an extremely useful tool in verifying a fund manager's claims to possessing particular investment skills. If a fund is marketed as being interest-rate neutral while providing consistent returns from superior credit research, then an attribution report will confirm this claim. Conversely, if the attribution report shows ...