Portfolio Management: 10,000 Hours and a Better Intuition - Schulich School of Business Seminar

Speaker: Christopher Guthrie, CFA – CEO, President & Senior Portfolio Manager, Hillsdale Investment Management

Location: Schulich School of Business / Master of Finance Department
York University, Toronto, ON

Date: September 27, 2013

Chris Guthrie, President and Senior Portfolio Manager of Hillsdale Investment Management, shares portfolio management principles in his presentation entitled “Portfolio Management: 10,000 Hours and a Better Intuition”.

Topics covered:

• Use and limitations of optimization in the formation of an efficient frontier
• Relationship of inter-portfolio correlations (IPC) to VIX
• Time and frequency dependence in measuring contribution to volatility (CTV)
• Fractals and Hurst exponents
• Trade off of bias vs. variance in model building
• The Uncertainty Principle as it applies to financial modeling
• Monte Carlo and Bootstrapping to adjust for conditionality and to recreate all histories
• The low volatility anomaly and successful conditions for a minimum risk portfolio

• Intuition: “The intimate knowledge of the world acquired by careful observation and painstaking effort” by Emanuel Derman

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