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City University London - The Business School

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The Trend is Our Friend: Risk Parity, Momentum and Trend Following in Global Asset Allocation

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The Trend is Our Friend: Risk Parity, Momentum and Trend Following in Global Asset Allocation

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2015
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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Risk parity, trend following,bhavioral finance, momentum, global asset allocation, equities, bonds, real estate, commodities

The Trend is Our Friend: Risk Parity, Momentum and Trend Following in Global Asset Allocation

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Jun 2013
Andrew Clare, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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risk parity, trend following, momentum, global asset allocation, equities, bonds,

The Trend is Our Friend: Risk Parity, Momentum and Trend Following in Global Asset Allocation

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 May 2013
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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risk parity, trend following, momentum, global asset allocation, equities, bonds, commodities, real estate

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Basel III: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 09 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2010
William A. Allen, Ka Kei Chan, Alistair Milne and Steve Thomas
National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Brunel University London, Loughborough University - School of Business and Economics and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 3,848 (6,145)
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asset liability management, bank capital, bank regulation, cost of bank capital, liquidity requirements

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Trend Following, Risk Parity and Momentum in Commodity Futures

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2013
Steve Thomas, Andrew Clare, James Seaton and Peter N. Smith
City University London - The Business School, City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School and University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies
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Breaking into the Blackbox: Trend Following, Stop Losses, and the Frequency of Trading: The Case of the S&P500

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Aug 2012
Steve Thomas, James Seaton, Andrew Clare and Peter N. Smith
City University London - The Business School, City University London - The Business School, City, University of London - Bayes Business School and University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies
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trend following, S&P500, stop losses, trading frequency, fundamental investment metrics

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An Evaluation of Alternative Equity Indices - Part 1: Heuristic and Optimised Weighting Schemes

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Apr 2013
Andrew Clare, Nick Motson and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - Bayes Business School and City University London - The Business School
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Alternative equity indices, risk-adjusted performance, Monte Carlo simulation

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Reducing Sequence Risk Using Trend Following and the CAPE Ratio

Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 10 May 2017
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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Sequence Risk, Perfect Withdrawal Rate, Decumulation, Trend Following, CAPE

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Can Sustainable Withdrawal Rates Be Enhanced by Trend Following?

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2018
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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Sequence Risk, Perfect Withdrawal Rate, Decumulation, Trend Following

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When Growth Beats Value: Removing Tail Risk From Global Equity Momentum Strategies

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 May 2014 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2018
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 1,273 (34,778)

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International equity; Value investing; Growth investing; Relative momentum; Trend following; Tail risk

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Carry and Trend Following Returns in the Foreign Exchange Market

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Jul 2015
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 1,232 (36,459)

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Forward exchange rate returns, trend following, carry trade, market liquidity and exchange risk.

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An Evaluation of Alternative Equity Indices - Part 2: Fundamental Weighting Schemes

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2013
Steve Thomas, Andrew Clare and Nick Motson
City University London - The Business School, City, University of London - Bayes Business School and City University London - Bayes Business School
Downloads 1,121 (41,938)
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Fundamentally-weighted equity indices, risk-adjusted performance, Monte Carlo simulation

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Heads We Win, Tails You Lose. Why Don't More Fund Managers Offer Symmetric Performance Fees?

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 Nov 2014
Andrew Clare, Nick Motson, Richard Payne and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 1,066 (44,997)
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Securitization and Bank Performance

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2020
Anna Sarkisyan, Barbara Casu, Andrew Clare and Steve Thomas
University of Essex - Essex Business School, City University London - The Business School, City, University of London - Bayes Business School and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 965 (51,757)
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Securitization, Bank Performance, Propensity Score Matching

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The Rehabilitation of Glidepath Investing

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The Rehabilitation of Glidepath Investing

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2019
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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Sequence Risk, Perfect Withdrawal Rate, Decumulation, Absolute Momentum,Trend Following

Absolute Momentum, Sustainable Withdrawal Rates and Glidepath Investing in US Retirement Portfolios From 1925

CAMA Working Paper No. 31/2019
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Apr 2019
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 390 (161,138)
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Sequence Risk, Perfect Withdrawal Rate, Decumulation, Absolute Momentum, Trend Following

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Trend Following and Momentum Strategies for Global REITs

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Alex Moss, Andrew Clare, Steve Thomas and James Seaton
University of Reading - Henley Business School, City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 906 (56,442)
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European Equity Investing Through the Financial Crisis: Can Risk Parity, Momentum or Trend Following Help to Reduce Tail Risk?

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European Equity Investing Through the Financial Crisis: Can Risk Parity, Momentum or Trend Following Help to Reduce Tail Risk?

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Dec 2013
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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Trend following; Momentum investing;tail; risk; European equity sectors, Financial Crisis.

European Equity Investing Through the Financial Crisis: Can Risk Parity, Momentum or Trend Following Help to Reduce Tail Risk?

CAMA Working Paper No. 8/2014
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2014
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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Trend following, Momentum investing, Tail risk, European equity sectors, Financial crisis

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Multi-Asset Class Mutual Funds: Can They Time the Market? Evidence from the US, UK and Canada

Clare, Andrew D., O'Sullivan, Niall , Sherman , Meadhbh and Thomas, Steve H., Multi-Asset Class Mutual Funds: Can They Time the Market? Evidence from the US, UK and Canada, Research in International Business and Finance, (2015 Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 04 Apr 2015
Andrew Clare, Niall O'Sullivan, Meadhbh Sherman and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, University College Cork, University College Cork and City University London - The Business School
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Market timing, asset class timing, asset allocation

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Was 2016 the Year of the Monkey?

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Feb 2017
Andrew Clare, Nick Motson and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - Bayes Business School and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 600 (96,886)

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Market capitalisation-weighted indices, Alternative equity indices, Smart Beta

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Securitization and Bank Performance: Some Empirical Evidence on US Commercial Banks

Bancaria Special Issue No.03-2010
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 May 2010
Anna Sarkisyan, Barbara Casu, Andrew Clare and Steve Thomas
University of Essex - Essex Business School, City University London - The Business School, City, University of London - Bayes Business School and City University London - The Business School
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Securitization, Bank performance

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Trading Probability and Turnover as Measures of Liquidity Risk: Evidence from the U.K. Stock Market

21st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2008 Paper
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2009
Ian D. McManus, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
University of Southampton - School of Management, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 429 (145,942)

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Liquidity, Trading Probability, Turnover

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Developing a Measure of Sequence Risk

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Jan 2020
Andrew Clare, Simon Glover, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, affiliation not provided to SSRN, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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Glidepath Investing, Sequence Risk, Perfect Withdrawal Rates, Trend Following

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On Luck versus Skill When Performance Benchmarks are Style-Consistent

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 01 Jun 2015
Andrew Mason, Sam Agyei-Ampomah, Andrew Clare and Steve Thomas
University of Surrey - Surrey Business School, Cranfield University - School of Management, City, University of London - Bayes Business School and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 371 (172,034)

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Mutual fund performance, style benchmarks, skill versus luck

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An Overview of International Deferred Annuity Markets

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Aug 2019
Anran Chen, Steven Haberman and Steve Thomas
Redington, City University London - Faculty of Actuarial Science and City University London - The Business School
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Deferred Annuity; Retirement Solution; Pension

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Cumulative Prospect Theory, Deferred Annuities and the Annuity Puzzle

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Nov 2016
Anran Chen, Steven Haberman and Steve Thomas
Redington, City University London - Faculty of Actuarial Science and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 316 (204,734)
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CPT, Deferred annuities, Annuity puzzle, Reservation price

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Why the Deferred Annuity Makes Sense

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Jun 2016
Anran Chen, Steven Haberman and Steve Thomas
Redington, City University London - Faculty of Actuarial Science and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 252 (259,177)
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retirement planning, pensions, deferred annuity, behavioral finance

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Complementary or Contradictory? Combining Returns Based & Characteristics Based Investment Style Analysis

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2011
Andrew Mason, Steve Thomas and Frank McGroarty
University of Surrey - Surrey Business School, City University London - The Business School and University of Southampton - Southampton Business School
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Investment Style, Mutual Funds, Portfolio, Style Analysis

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Measuring Success in Decumulation: The Minimum Acceptable Annual Withdrawal Rate (MAAW)

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 May 2022
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 193 (334,490)
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Sequence Risk; Longevity Risk, Withdrawal Risk, Delayed Annuities, Adaptive Withdrawals

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Optimal Decumulation Strategies During Retirement with Deferred Annuities

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Feb 2017
Anran Chen, Steven Haberman and Steve Thomas
Redington, City University London - Faculty of Actuarial Science and City University London - The Business School
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Deferred annuity; Decumulation strategy; Defined Contribution; Retirement

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Perfect Withdrawal in a Noisy World: Investing Lessons With and Without Annuities While in Drawdown Between 2000 and 2019

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Feb 2021
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 170 (374,895)
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Sequence Risk, Longevity Risk, Withdrawal Risk, Delayed Annuities, Adaptive Withdrawals

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Style Analysis for Diversified U.S. Equity Funds

Journal of Asset Management 13, 170-185 (June 2012) DOI:10.1057/jam.2012.6
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 May 2012
Andrew Mason, Frank McGroarty and Steve Thomas
University of Surrey - Surrey Business School, University of Southampton - Southampton Business School and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 156 (403,683)
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Style, Investment, Benchmark, Portfolio, Value, Factors

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The Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on the Yield Curve in Emerging Markets: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 12 Dec 2018
Joe Delvaux, Kate Phylaktis and Steve Thomas
City University London - The Business School, City University London - The Business School and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 151 (414,856)

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yield curve, bond markets, emerging market economies, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Returns Based Style Groups and Benchmarking

Posted: 17 Dec 2010
Andrew Mason, Steve Thomas and Frank McGroarty
University of Surrey - Surrey Business School, City University London - The Business School and University of Southampton - Southampton Business School
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Mutual funds, Style analysis, Benchmarking, Portfolio Management, Management Style, Returns Based Style, Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Style investing, Comovement, Value, Growth, Investment, Asset management

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Combining Returns Based and Characteristics Based Style Analysis for US Diversified Equity Funds

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2011
Andrew Mason, Steve Thomas and Frank McGroarty
University of Surrey - Surrey Business School, City University London - The Business School and University of Southampton - Southampton Business School
Downloads 137 (448,516)

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Portfolio Management, Management Style, Style Analysis, Mutual Funds, Portfolio Characteristics, Characteristics Based Style, Returns Based Style, Factor Analysis, Style investing, Comovement, Value, Growth, Investment, Asset management

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The Blended Approach to Real Estate Allocations: Performance Implications of Combining an Exposure to German Spezialfonds with Global Listed Real Estate Securities

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 25 Sep 2015
Alex Moss, Andrew Clare, Steve Thomas and James Seaton
University of Reading - Henley Business School, City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 133 (459,438)

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REITs, Investment Management, Portfolio Management, Real Estate, Momentum, Trend Following

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Combining Flexible Asset Allocation, Sustainable Withdrawals, and Deferred Annuities to provide an Adaptive Lifelong Investing Solution

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Apr 2021
Anran Chen, Steven Haberman and Steve Thomas
Redington, City University London - Faculty of Actuarial Science and City University London - The Business School
Downloads 122 (491,849)

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Deferred Annuities, Post-retirement Decumulation, Perfect Withdrawal Rates, Adaptive Investment solution, Glidepath

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Time Varying Prospective Utility and Optimal Asset Allocation for Stocks and Bonds: The Case of Australia and Japan, 1926-1995

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Aug 2012
Ian D. McManus, Owain Ap Gwilym and Steve Thomas
University of Southampton - School of Management, Bangor Business School and City University London - The Business School
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prospective utility, loss aversion, myopia, demographics, equity risk premium

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Temporal Reframing of Recurring Savings Reduces Perceived Pain and Helps Those with Lower Financial Literacy to Save

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Sep 2021
Stephen Shu, Steve Thomas and David A. Smith
Cornell University, City University London - The Business School and City University London - Bayes Business School
Downloads 99 (574,084)
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choice architecture, behavioral economics, saving, financial decisions

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Temporal Reframing Elicitations Can Improve the Emergency Savings Intentions of Gig Workers

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Sep 2021
Stephen Shu, Steve Thomas and David A. Smith
Cornell University, City University London - The Business School and City University London - Bayes Business School
Downloads 96 (585,729)
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choice architecture, behavioral economics, saving, emergency savings, financial decisions

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Saving to Decumulate: a Lifetime Journey, Introducing the Perfect Contribution Rate and its Relation to the Perfect Withdrawal Rate 

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Jun 2024
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School
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Pension accumulation, Decumulation, Sequence Risk, Withdrawal Risk, Mean Reversion

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Size Matters: Tail Risk, Momentum and Trend Following in International Equity Portfolios

https://doi.org/10.3905/joi.2017.26.3.053
Posted: 21 May 2019
Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Steve Thomas
City, University of London - Bayes Business School, City University London - The Business School, University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies and City University London - The Business School

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Size portfolios; trend following; international; developing

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Does Securitization Reduce Credit Risk Taking? Empirical Evidence from US Bank Holding Companies

Posted: 06 Feb 2010
Barbara Casu, Andrew Clare, Anna Sarkisyan and Steve Thomas
City University London - The Business School, City, University of London - Bayes Business School, University of Essex - Essex Business School and City University London - The Business School

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bank, securitization, risk taking