Analysts' Dividend Forecasts, Portfolio Selection, and Market Risk Premia
32 Pages Posted: 3 Mar 2008
Date Written: February 22, 2007
Abstract
The most relevant practical impediment to an application of the Markowitz portfolio selection approach is the problem of estimating return moments, in particular return expectations. We analyze the consequences of using return estimates implied by analysts' dividend forecasts under the explicit notion of taxes and non-flat term structures of interest rates and achieve quite good performance results. As a by-product, these results cast some doubt upon the adequacy of estimating market risk premia with implied returns, because estimation techniques with good performance results are hardly suited to describe market expectations.
Keywords: analysts` forecasts, CAPM, implied returns, market risk premium, portfolio optimization, return estimation
JEL Classification: G11, G12, G14
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