Portfolios for Long-Term Investors

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Portfolios for Long-Term Investors

25 Feb 2021

How should long-term investors form portfolios in our time-varying, multifactor and friction-filled world? Two conceptual frameworks may help: looking directly at the stream of payments that a portfolio and payout policy can produce, and including a general equilibrium view of the markets’ economic purpose, and the nature of investors’ differences. These perspectives can rationalize some of investors’ behaviors, suggest substantial revisions to standard portfolio theory, and help us to apply portfolio theory in a way that is practically useful for investors.
asset pricing financial economics economic fluctuations and growth portfolio selection and asset pricing

Authors

John H. Cochrane

Acknowledgements & Disclosure
This paper is based on a keynote talk prepared for the NBER conference, "New Developments in Long-Term Asset Management Spring 2021." I thank John Campbell, Jim Poterba, and Luis Viceira for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3386/w28513
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United States of America