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Deborah Lucas.
Khattar, Vineet
Sloan School of Management.
Sloan School of Management
2016-09-30T19:33:38Z
2016-09-30T19:33:38Z
2016
2016
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104521
958296660
Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.
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The global financial crisis and following bond buyback actions and quantitative easing announcements by the ECB have led to strong demand for fixed income investments, particularly in Europe. This has increased demand for both active and passive fixed income funds. In this thesis, I review the Markit EUR Corporate Index, iShares (a passive index tracker fund) and several actively managed European investment grade-focused commercial bond funds. I propose new custom bond funds based on quantitative strategies using the bond constituents of Markit iBoxx index. I then compare the performance of these custom bond funds with the benchmark Markit EUR Corporate index, the passive tracker fund and the active bond funds. I highlight the strength of simple strategies which often perform at least as well as the index and the active bond funds.
by Vineet Khattar.
S.M. in Management Studies
116 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Creating custom ETFs and exploring performance versus peers and the iBoxx index
Creating custom exchange-traded funds and exploring performance versus peers and the iBoxx index
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