Abstract
It has become increasingly popular to advise investors to relocate their funds from a primarily stock portfolio to a primarily bond portfolio as they get older. However, the well-known decision rules such as mean-variance or stochastic dominance rules are unable to explain this common practice. Almost stochastic dominance (ASD) and almost mean-variance (AMV) approaches are used to examine the dominance of stock and bond portfolios. ASD and AMV rules unambiguously support the popular practice of advising higher stock to bond ratio for long investment horizons. Hence, we provide an explanation to the practitioners' recommendation within the expected utility paradigm.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 817-830 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Monetary Economics |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2009 |
Keywords
- Almost mean-variance
- Almost stochastic dominance
- Asset allocation
- Life-cycle funds