Vineer Bhansali

LongTail Alpha, LLC

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1.

Offensive Risk Management: Can Tail Risk Hedging Be Profitable?

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2010
Vineer Bhansali and Josh Davis
LongTail Alpha, LLC and Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO)
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Tail Hedging, Asset Allocation

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Volatility and the Carry Trade

Journal of Fixed Income, Winter 2007
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Nov 2007
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC
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carry trade, volatility

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The Muni Bond Spread: Credit, Liquidity, and Tax

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 14-37
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 Aug 2014
Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali and Yuhang Xing
BlackRock, Inc, LongTail Alpha, LLC and Rice University
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municipal bonds, public finance, muni default risk illiquidity, prerefunded munis, advance refunding, taxes

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Risk Parity With Trend Following

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Feb 2024
Vineer Bhansali, Linda Chang, Jeremie Holdom, Matthew J. Johnson and Colin Suvak
LongTail Alpha, LLC, LongTail Alpha, LLC, LongTail Alpha, LLC, LongTail Alpha, LLC and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Risk Parity, Trend-Following

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Active Risk Parity

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 29 Nov 2012
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Risk Parity, Risk Factors, Asset Allocation

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Diversifying Diversification: Downside Risk Management with Portfolios of Insurance Securities

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 Jan 2021
Vineer Bhansali and Jeremie Holdom
LongTail Alpha, LLC and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Diversification, Hedging, Risk Mitigation

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Tail Risk Hedging Performance: Measuring What Counts

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2021
Linda Chang, Jeremie Holdom and Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC, LongTail Alpha, LLC and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Tail Hedging

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Forecasting Portfolio Risk in Normal and Stressed Markets

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Forecasting Portfolio Risk in Normal and Stressed Markets

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 28 Nov 2001
Vineer Bhansali and Mark B. Wise
LongTail Alpha, LLC and California Institute of Technology
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risk factors, market stress, portfolio risk

Forecasting Portfolio Risk in Normal and Stressed Markets

Journal of Risk, Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall 2001
Posted: 17 Jan 2002
Vineer Bhansali and Mark B. Wise
LongTail Alpha, LLC and California Institute of Technology

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risk factors, market stress, portfolio risk

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Inflation Tail Risk Hedging

Journal of Portfolio Management, 2014
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Mar 2013
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Inflation, Hyperinflation, Hedging, Tail Risk, Monetary Policy, Basis Risk

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Putting Economics (Back) into Quantitative Models

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Nov 2005
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds

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Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali and Yuhang Xing
BlackRock, Inc, LongTail Alpha, LLC and Rice University
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municipal bonds, income and capital gains tax, de minimis boundary, public finance

Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 26 Nov 2008
Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali and Yuhang Xing
BlackRock, Inc, LongTail Alpha, LLC and Rice University
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municipal bonds, income and capital gains tax, de minimis boundary, public finance, implicit tax rate

Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds

Journal of Finance, Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 565-601, 2008
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Oct 2011
Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali and Yuhang Xing
BlackRock, Inc, LongTail Alpha, LLC and Rice University
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Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds

NBER Working Paper No. w14496
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2022
Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali and Yuhang Xing
BlackRock, Inc, LongTail Alpha, LLC and Rice University
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Debt Subordination and the Pricing of Credit Default Swaps

Cal Tech Working Paper No. CALT-68-2415
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Jan 2003
Peter B. Lee, Mark B. Wise and Vineer Bhansali
Lehman Brothers, New York, California Institute of Technology and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Credit Default Swaps, Debt Subordination

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Corporate Bond Risk from Stock Dividend Uncertainty

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Corporate Bond Risk from Stock Dividend Uncertainty

California Institute of Technology Working Paper No. CALT-68-2435
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Jun 2003
Mark B. Wise, Peter B. Lee and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology, Lehman Brothers, New York and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Dividends, Corporate Bonds, Default Probability

Corporate Bond Risk from Stock Dividend Uncertainty

Posted: 20 Sep 2004
Mark B. Wise, Peter B. Lee and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology, Lehman Brothers, New York and LongTail Alpha, LLC

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corporate bond, stock dividend, default probability

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Universal Asymptotic Behavior of Mortgage Prepayments

California Tech Working Paper No. 68-2307
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 20 Mar 2002
Mark B. Wise and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Mortgage, prepayments, burnout

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Correlated Random Walks and the Joint Survival Probability

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 07 Jul 2004
Mark B. Wise and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Random walk , survival probability, first passage

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Modeling Swap Spreads in Normal and Stressed Environments

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Dec 2008
Vineer Bhansali, Yonathan Schwarzkopf and Mark B. Wise
LongTail Alpha, LLC, Lime Brokerage LLC and California Institute of Technology
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Good States, Bad States: What Do Options Tell Us About Schizophrenic Behavior of Mr. Market and What Can We Do About It?

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Jan 2021
Vineer Bhansali and Jeremie Holdom
LongTail Alpha, LLC and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Options, Bimodality, Elections, Market Behavior, Asset Allocation, Hedging

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Portfolio Allocation to Corporate Bonds with Correlated Defaults

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Portfolio Allocation to Corporate Bonds with Correlated Defaults

CALT Working Paper No. 68-2365
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 May 2002
Mark B. Wise and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Portfolio Allocation to Corporate Bonds with Correlated Defaults

Journal of Risk, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 2002
Posted: 09 Dec 2002
Mark B. Wise and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology and LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Implications of Correlated Default for Portfolio Allocation to Corporate Bonds

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Implications of Correlated Default for Portfolio Allocation to Corporate Bonds

California Inst. of Tech. Working Paper No. CALT-68-2405
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Sep 2002
Mark B. Wise and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Implications of Correlated Default for Portfolio Allocation to Corporate Bonds

Journal of Investment Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, First Quarter 2005
Posted: 30 Mar 2005
Mark B. Wise and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology and LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Portfolio, correlated default, corporate bonds

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How Much Should Investors Pay for Leverage?

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 04 Apr 2005
Vineer Bhansali and Mark B. Wise
LongTail Alpha, LLC and California Institute of Technology
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Lending To Lose: Who Buys Negatively Yielding Bonds And What It Means For Investors

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Dec 2019
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Negative Yielding Bonds, Index Funds, Pension funds, Risk Management, Hedging, Central Banks

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Diversification and Generalized Tracking Errors for Correlated Non-Normal Returns

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Diversification and Generalized Tracking Errors for Correlated Non-Normal Returns

California Institute of Technology Working Paper No. CALT-68-2400
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Oct 2002
Mark B. Wise and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology and LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Diversification and Generalized Tracking Errors for Correlated Non-Normal Returns

Quantitative Finance, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 482-486, December 2002
Posted: 12 Feb 2003
Mark B. Wise and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology and LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Diversification, Non-normal, Returns

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Taylor Rules Under the Risk-Management Paradigm of Discretionary Monetary Policy

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Nov 2005
Vineer Bhansali and Mark B. Wise
LongTail Alpha, LLC and California Institute of Technology
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Taylor Rules, Monetary Policy, Low Inflation, Risk Management

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Asymmetric Monetary Policy Rules and the Yield Curve

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Mar 2006
Matthew P. Dorsten, Vineer Bhansali and Mark B. Wise
California Institute of Technology, LongTail Alpha, LLC and California Institute of Technology
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Yield Curve, Monetary Policy

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Endogenous Yield Curve Risk from Central Bank Policy Uncertainty

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 04 Dec 2006
Vineer Bhansali and Mark B. Wise
LongTail Alpha, LLC and California Institute of Technology
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Central Bank Policy, Duration

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The Incredible Upside-Down Fixed-Income Market - Negative Interest Rates and Their Implications

CFA Institute Research Foundation Books, June 2021
Number of pages: 116 Posted: 27 Jul 2021
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC
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Build America Bonds

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Build America Bonds

NBER Working Paper No. w16008
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2023
Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali and Yuhang Xing
BlackRock, Inc, LongTail Alpha, LLC and Rice University
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Build America Bonds

Posted: 02 May 2010
Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali and Yuhang Xing
BlackRock, Inc, LongTail Alpha, LLC and Rice University

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Municipal debt, tax-exempt bonds, public finance, tax subsidy

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Option Total Return and Active Option Portfolio Management

Posted: 13 Oct 2023
Vineer Bhansali, Linda Chang, Jeremie Holdom and Matthew J. Johnson
LongTail Alpha, LLC, LongTail Alpha, LLC, LongTail Alpha, LLC and LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Options, Black-Scholes, Total Return, Tail Risk Hedging

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Monetization Matters: Active Tail Risk Management and The Great Virus Crisis

Posted: 10 Aug 2020
Vineer Bhansali, Linda Chang, Jeremie Holdom and Marcy Rappaport
LongTail Alpha, LLC, LongTail Alpha, LLC, LongTail Alpha, LLC and LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Tail Risk Hedging, Monetization, COVID-19

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Right Tail Hedging: Managing Risk When Markets Melt Up

Posted: 15 Feb 2018
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Call Options, Upside Risk, Tail Hedging

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Everybody's Doing it: Short Volatility Strategies and Shadow Financial Insurers

Forthcoming, Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2018
Posted: 17 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2020
Vineer Bhansali and Lawrence Harris
LongTail Alpha, LLC and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department

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volatility strategies, options, market crashes, short VIX carry trade, volatility risk premium, risk-parity fund, risk premium harvesters, target volatility funds

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A Comparison of Municipal Bond Index Weighting Schemes

Posted: 24 Mar 2015
Vineer Bhansali, Ethan Namvar, Kuntara Pukthuanthong and Shane D. Shepherd
LongTail Alpha, LLC, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, University of Missouri, Columbia and Research Affiliates, LLC

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Municipal Bonds; Municipal Bond Index; Passive Investing; Indexing

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Carry and Trend in Lots of Places

https://doi.org/10.3905/jpm.2015.41.4.082
Posted: 18 Mar 2015
Vineer Bhansali, Josh Davis, Matthew P. Dorsten and Graham Rennison
LongTail Alpha, LLC, Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), California Institute of Technology and Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO)
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Carry, trend, momentum, asset allocation

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The Risk in Risk Parity: A Factor-based Analysis of Asset-based Risk Parity

Journal of Investing, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 102-110
Posted: 25 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2016
Vineer Bhansali, Josh Davis, Graham Rennison, Jason C. Hsu, Jason C. Hsu and Feifei Li
LongTail Alpha, LLC, Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), Research AffiliatesRayliant Global Advisors and Research Affiliates, LLC

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risk parity, asset allocation, risk factor parity

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Fat Tails and Stop-Losses in Portable Alpha

Journal of Investment Management (JOIM), Third Quarter 2011
Posted: 24 Aug 2011
Mark B. Wise, Yonathan Schwarzkopf and Vineer Bhansali
California Institute of Technology, Lime Brokerage LLC and LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Portable alpha, stop-loss, regime shifts, utility, risk aversion, Sharpe ratio

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Offensive Risk Management II: The Case for Active Tail Risk Hedging

Journal of Portfolio Management, Forthcoming
Posted: 09 May 2010
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Tail Risk, Risk Management, Options

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Market Crises-Can the Physics of Phase Transitions and Symmetry Breaking Tell Us Anything Useful?

Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM), Third Quarter 2009
Posted: 13 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2010
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Tail risk, liquidity crisis, systemic risk, phase transitions, arbitrage

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How Valuable are the TALF Puts?

Posted: 11 Aug 2009
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC

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TALF, Put, Leverage, Federal Reserve, Liquidity Crisis

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Asset Allocation: Putting Economics (Back) in the Mix

Posted: 30 Oct 2008
Vineer Bhansali
LongTail Alpha, LLC

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Asset Allocation, Factor Models, Tail Risk, ISM

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Systemic Credit Risk: What is the Market Telling Us?

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2008
Posted: 23 Sep 2008
Vineer Bhansali, Robert Gingrich and Francis A. Longstaff
LongTail Alpha, LLC, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area

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Derivative Instruments, Debt Derivatives, Debt Investments, Risk Measures, Credit Analysis