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A market equilibrium model for the management of ordinary share portfolios

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

R. S. Clarkson
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1.1 The price of a particular ordinary share represents an equilibrium position between the views of those participants in the market who wish to buy and those who wish to sell. Most participants, and certainly all institutional investors, have access to a vast amount of background information, and share prices adjust continuously as these participants revise their buying or selling prices in the light of new information or in the light of a changed interpretation of existing information. If an explicit price model can be developed solely from the principle that prices are in equilibrium once all participants in the market have acted on their interpretation of the information available to them, this model will be of considerable assistance in the management of ordinary share portfolios.

1.2 This paper describes the construction and application of such a price model and discusses the optimal extent to which mathematical and statistical methods can be employed in portfolio management. A recent paper by Clarkson (1980) describes the stage of development that had been reached at the end of 1978; the present paper expands on the underlying concept of market equilibrium and on the practical implications for the management of institutional portfolios of ordinary shares.

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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 110 , Issue 1 , June 1983 , pp. 17 - 134
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1983

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