Financial Sector Stocks: A Study in Portfolio Weighting Schemes 2006-2016
Presenter(s)
Daniel E Wollenberg
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Description
Because of the financial crisis in 2008, S&P 500 Financial stocks experienced both increased volatility and regulation in subsequent years, which had an important effect on financial stock prices and returns. In this study, I develop two portfolios of financial sector stocks that are weighed by return on equity (ROE). I construct the stock weights based on the premise that stocks with higher ROEs deserve higher weights. I also modify the weights by the standard deviations of the ROEs. I test the following hypotheses. (1) Risk adjusted ROE weighted portfolios outperform the S&P 500 Index (SPX) over the 2011-2016 time period. (2) Risk adjusted ROE portfolios outperform the market value weighted portfolio XLF over the 2011-2016 time period. Both buy and hold and rebalance strategies are used in the analysis of portfolio performance.
Publication Date
4-5-2017
Project Designation
Independent Research - Undergraduate
Primary Advisor
Trevor C. Collier
Primary Advisor's Department
Economics and Finance
Keywords
Stander Symposium project
Recommended Citation
"Financial Sector Stocks: A Study in Portfolio Weighting Schemes 2006-2016" (2017). Stander Symposium Projects. 959.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/959
