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Portfolio Management and Evaluating Investments
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Market Participants Portfolio Manager
(“PM”) makes decisions about which securities to buy and sell in his/her portfolio BUY-SIDE Buy-side analyst: reports to PM, delivers trade ideas from research/analysis Buy-side trader: carries out PM’s instructions SELL-SIDE Sell-side analyst: makes recommendations on stocks in his/her “space” Salesperson: markets sell-side analyst’s research, recommendations to the buy side Sell-side trader: executes trades for buy side
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Evaluating Performance: Total Return
Total Return: the percentage change in the value of a security over a specific time horizon Has two components: Price appreciation (capital gain) Dividends (distributions) Individual Security total return analysis TRA<GO>, COMP<GO> Risk-Free Return Excess Return
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Portfolio return calculations
Market Value of individual security price * number of shares Market value of portfolio sum of all individual security’s market values Weight of individual security MV of security / MV of portfolio Total return (current value – initial value) / initial value Total return of portfolio weighted average (i.e. sum of each security’s weight * TR) P&L = MV of day 2 – MV of day 1
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Relative Returns A PM uses a benchmark to determine if the return on their portfolio over a specific time period was relatively good or bad Active strategy: Attempt to beat the benchmark in risk-adjusted return ➔ Alpha/Active Return Passive strategy: Attempt to replicate the risk/return of the benchmark ➔ Tracking Error
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risk measures Beta: correlation of the returns of a stock with the returns of the overall market; BETA<GO>, HRA<GO> The percent change in price of a stock given a 1% change in the price of the overall market Beta < 1 Beta = 1 Beta > 1 Portfolio Beta: weighted average
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Review of portfolio theory
What is a portfolio? Who are the market players? Why is diversification important? What are the two approaches of asset allocation? What are the two components of an individual security’s total return? If I am a passive portfolio manager what is my goal? Would I track alpha or tracking error?
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Creating A Portfolio PRTU: You can manually enter in your positions and costs on PRTU. Excel Drag & Drop into PRTU BBU<GO> upload
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Important PRTU Settings
Field Description Position type Defines if the portfolio uses fixed weights, drifting weights, or shares. This cannot be changed once selected. Asset Class Defines the asset class of the portfolio. Choices are: Equity, Fixed income, Balanced, or Fund of Funds Base Currency Defines what currency the portfolio is denominated in Enable history Allows history to be stored for the portfolio Enable data acquisition Allows historical analytics to be run on the portfolio (HFA, attribution, performance) Futures margin type Sets what type of margin will be associated with futures Short margin type Sets what type of margin will be associated with short positions
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PRTU Columns Mkt Px: exchange price in local currency
Market Val: value of total position in portfolio currency ➔Position*Mkt Px*FX Rate Cost Price: price the security was bought ➔ Can we write in the same security for different cost prices? ➔ Holdings based vs. Transaction based analysis
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Fixed vs. Drifting vs. Shares
Fixed weight – Securities have fixed weights which remain the same over time. This implies that the portfolio is rebalanced each day Drifting weight – Securities have weights which will change daily to reflect the price changes from the previous day; act like Shares portfolios Shares - securities have actual number of shares or par amount of bonds you hold
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Importing to PRTU Date you are Importing to (Pasting on this date)
Date you are importing from (copy from this date)
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PRTU: Check points CHECK POINT: ANY date we made ANY changes on the portfolio, ANY date we inputted / removed ANYTHING from our portfolio 01/01/10 03/01/11 TODAY
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Uploading Using BBU<GO>
BBU<GO> is a way for clients to automatically upload their portfolio holdings without having to manually go into PRTU and change them. Types of uploads: FTP Upload – Portfolio holdings come directly from 3rd party (accounting service, holding company, etc.) Basic – Portfolio holdings are stored on clients computer and are uploaded by the client. ***Note: basic uploads can be scheduled to run “automatically once per day” BBU uploading Clients can bring in their sheets to upload Examples 3) additional info sample Long short Historical Classification Multiple portfolios SECURITY AND QUANTITY How many fields are required for each example? Highly recommended: portfolio name Errors Scheduled uploads 1 scheduled upload per day upload up to 50 portfolios Need to be logged into the system Two weeks of uploads, don’t want to see it? 5) select delete Only 2 years of history FTP vs. BBU Need to be logged into the terminal
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Basic Vs. FTP Both are limited to 2 years of history when uploading
Client must be logged in to terminal for upload to take place File will automatically be uploaded even if the client is not logged in No additional software or configuration needed Small additional cost for software needed for setup Must be run from the same location/machine as Bloomberg terminal Can be run on any machine Both are limited to 2 years of history when uploading Both can update up to 50 portfolios a day
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BBU<GO> Steps to Upload
Prepare Upload File The required columns will be different depending on the type of portfolio you want to upload. For all uploads Security ID and Quantity are needed. Valid Security ID’s : ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, Equity Ticker, Any ID with Yellow market sector key Quantity values: Shares or weights (short positions are not available for weights) Margin and Cash: Ticker for short margin = CASH SHORTS Ticker for futures margin = CASH FUTURES Cash ticker is just spot ticker. USD CURNCY
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Steps to Upload Format The file should be a list of end of day holdings for the dates you made changes to the portfolio, even for positions that did not change on that day. For example if you have 100 shares of IBM and 100 shares of GOOG on 1/1/2011 and then you sell 25 shares of IBM on 3/1/2011 the file should look like: Port name Security ID Quantity Date Sample IBM 100 01/01/2011 GOOG 75 03/01/2011
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Steps to Upload Upload the file Map the file Map unknown identifiers
Save the sheet to your computer. Run BBU<GO> choose the file using the file paths on the top half of the screen then 4) Upload Map the file Once the file is uploaded choose “CLICK TO MAP” The idea is to tell which columns in the sheet represent the columns in PRTU. Map unknown identifiers Any errors that appear from the upload (unknown identifiers, wrong tickers) can be fixed Set file and portfolio defaults
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Review of creating portfolios
What are the two tools we can use to create a portfolio? How do they differ? If I want to upload two portfolios with history, how many columns do I need in my excel sheet? If I create a portfolio today and want to see my total return for the last year, how do I go about doing this?
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Classifications Classification: a way to place a security in a particular group according to their characteristics Examples: GICS sectors, market cap, analyst PCLS<GO> You can also upload custom classification using BBU<GO> uploads
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Margin Types Cash Margin – a dollar amount . They type is mainly used when clients get their daily holdings from their back office and they simply upload this to our system. Percentage – Allows users to assume that they are posting x% of the total market value of the short positions without having to calc the dollar amount.
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Individual Functions vs. PORT<GO>
PORT<GO> Tabs PRT<GO> Intraday PSD<GO> Characteristics HPA<GO>, BBAT<GO> Holdings Holdings HFA<GO> Performance BBAT<GO> Attribution VAR<GO> VaR RSKF<GO> Tracking Error WRST<GO> Scenarios
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Analyzing Returns- Attribution
Attribution: BBAT<GO> or Attribution tab Definition: Analysis of the impact of a portfolio manager’s decisions Looks at both Allocation and Selection effects of active return Helps to determine whether investing with a specific fund has been money well spent
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Analyzing Risk - VaR Value at Risk
Technique used to analyze potential portfolio losses. Portfolio is subjected to a series of scenarios in order to simulate returns over a given period. Two primary methodologies in calculating VaR: Monte Carlo Historical
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PRTU review Shares/Par amount, Fixed or Drifting weight
Review of the columns on PRTU Being able to back date to generate history Importing option on PRTU and “checkpoints”
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Portfolio maintenance
PRTU<GO> does NOT automatically adjust for corporate actions Two ways to fix this Go to PRTU<GO> and manually adjust for your corporate actions Use PMNT<GO> to adjust for your corporate actions Sharing portfolios: PDIS<GO>
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Fixed income portfolios
Fixed Income View on PORT<GO> Released to all clients with no additional cost Currently we do not support balanced portfolios, equity and fixed income on separate views COMING SOON!
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Creating and setting up fixed income portfolio
PRTU Settings: need to ensure that the asset class of the portfolio is set to Fixed Income Entry of position Divide by 1000 on PRTU Option on BBU divide by 1000 Entry of a unique ID: ex. VOD Corp, VOD 7 7/ Corp Position types supported for Fixed Income No shorts Only Cash/Par amount (no weighted portfolios)
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What do Fixed Income Portfolio managers look at?
Assess total return of portfolio Absolute Relative to benchmark Assess risk of portfolio Interest rate risk Sensitivity to curve changes Sensitivity to tenor changes Credit risk Sensitivity to credit spread changes
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Lets start with one bond…
YAS<GO> What is Duration (Macauley’s)? What is modified duration? What is DV01? Is yield to maturity accurate? Is it realistic? Credit spread What is Spread to benchmark? What is G spread, I spread? Why do we have OAS (conceptually)? This is standard when looking at portfolios (most logical)
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Characteristics tab Basics of the overall portfolio
Yield, Average life, Coupon (ALM) Want to see this compared to the benchmark? How do I want to define relative characteristics? Credit (overall) OAS Composite credit rating Interest rate sensitivity measures (overall) DV01 Modified Duration This is a current snapshot, Use “As of” date on top right to see historical
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Historical performance
How has my portfolio done? What is the total return? How much have I outperformed / tracked the benchmark? Total return for a FI portfolio: Where does it come from? How to break it down? Can I see components of total return?
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Fixed income attribution
Explaining the total return values In equity we have Attribution, Selection, and Currency, in Fixed Income how do we break this down? What can we quantify? Currency (for sure) How do price and yield move? Curve change (how has the change in curve affected my return) Curve carry (How much has this contributed to my return): This is quantifiable as we can directly observe the change – what is remaining is “Excess Return”
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Fixed Income Attribution – Excess Return
Excess Return broken down into Allocation Selection But this depends on the Model – There are 4 choices Brinson (Total Return)* Excess Return (% Market Weighted) Excess Return (Spread Duration Weighted) Spread Return (Spread Duration Weighted) Like Equity
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Fi attribution models Brinson (Total Return)
More for equities than Fixed Income Only breaks down total return into allocation, currency, selection, [interaction] (Curve return is not there) Excess Return (% Market Weighted) Breaks it down in to Curve return and excess Everything that is not explained by curve is Excess The excess is then broken down into Allocation and Selection
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Fi attribution models Excess Return Model (SD weighted)
Similar to the previous: Still have curve return, in fact the curve return will be identical Difference is the way its weighted: using spread duration (sensitivity to credit) More applicable for corporates rather than govies Excess is broken down into: Currency, Allocation, selection Interpretation of Allocation and Selection similar to previous: if a sector’s credit spread (relative to benchmark) widens (more risky), decision to LONG sector would generate negative return Spread ↑ Price ↓ Negative return ➔ negative allocation effect If credit spreads of portfolio constituents widens Portfolio less sensitive to credit (relative to benchmark) in terms of spread duration ➔ positive selection effect in the case where credit spreads have widened.
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FI Attribution models Spread Return (Spread duration weighted)
Again – curve Return is the same Weighting are the same as previous Only difference is that Attribution and Selection effects now broken down further Allocation (spread) carry, Allocation (spread) change Selection (spread) carry, Selection (spread) Change Don’t worry about this, specifics not in exam, BUT if curious: IDOC <GO>
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Key rates on PORT Assessing sensitivity: See which sector/group/breakdown has the highest sensitivity so you know what to address first Identify where your interest risk is highly concentrated Identify versus benchmark where your interest risk lies Passive PM does not want differences between benchmark (immunization) Active PM will want to outperform the benchmark (therefore want negative) Key rates – partial sensitivity Relative to benchmark – Long or Short duration? What is my expectation? Why have I taken this bet? How to configure which curve? What is Key rate and what is DV01? How to show DV01?
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Key Rates on krr<GO>
Similar to PORT Shift in interest rates is 1BP UPWARD shift Cannot do it relative to a benchmark Shows dollar/monetary sensitivity (can see this on PORT as well, cannot change on KRR) Algorithmics (supports Swaps as well which PORT does not)
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Tracking Error Similar to equity, factors are different
Spread Yield Curve Currency Decompose risk to these factors Non-factor: cannot be explained
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VAR on port Same as equities in methodology
Only factors used in the model are different Currency Yield curve Spread NOTE: If portfolio has swaps and other non-cash instruments, use VAR<GO> instead
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Scenarios on bsa<GO>
Look at scenarios and how that will affect your position Assessing how your return changes pending the different scenarios You expect Market value to go UP when interest rates go DOWN (vice versa) Can it be that Market value go UP when interest rate go UP? WHY? HINT: Think of what is contributing to my returns Creating Custom Scenarios Can change the nature of the shock Instantaneous At horizon date Security list supported on BSA<GO> help pages Do you have a view on interest rates? Are they going down?
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Scenarios (PORT) Can do custom shifts like BSA, but also have preset scenarios (Scenario detail tab) Can stress other factors too (FX rates, Macro etc) Same reasons/rationale as BSA essentially
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