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The Divergence of High- and Low-Frequency Estimation - Implications for Performance Measurement

March 1, 2015
By: William Kinlaw, Mark Kritzman, David Turkington, State Street Associates

By Will Kinlaw, Mark Kritzman, and David Turkington.

 

Published in the Journal of Portfolio Management, Spring 2015 and recipient of the 2015 Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Award.

 

We document the distortion that non-zero lagged correlations introduce to the Sharpe ratios within a universe of hedge funds, the information ratios of a universe of mutual funds, and the performance of risk parity strategies.

Author Bios
William Kinlaw
William Kinlaw is Executive Vice President and Head of Data Intelligence at State Street Markets
Mark Kritzman
Mark Kritzman is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and a founding partner of State Street Associates
David Turkington
David Turkington is Senior Managing Director and Head of State Street Associates at State Street Markets
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