Sunday, November 23, 2008

Reading 13 onwards

Managing individual investor portfolios..


Five things to consider for IPS:


1. Liquidity needs

2. Time horizon for investing

3. Taxes

4. Legal and regulatory constraints

5. Unique circumstances

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Monte Carlo simulation: personal planning (retirement planning)

probabilistic distribution to be used: all different paths for the individual's earnings.
Normally median of distribution may be much lower than the average; fat tail... So providing client a prob distribution is quite useful.
Monte Carlo pitfalls:
a) Relying on historical data for prediction
b) Performance of specific investment relevant to user must be considered instead of general..
c) Tax consequences must be taken into account.

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