Bob Anderson: Determinants of Levered Portfolio Performance, Pension Investment Association of Canada (PIAC)

Many Canadian pension funds use leverage to reduce the risk inherent in the asset-liability imbalance, to employ risk parity strategies, or to enhance asset returns, often tactically changing the amount of applied leverage. A recent article co-written by Robert Anderson documents the sources of levered portfolio performance including the impact of trading costs and covariance with excess return on the underlying assets.

  • Start date: 2015-09-30 08:00:00
  • End date: 2015-10-02 17:00:00