Portfolio Construction with Transaction Costs......................................... 449
Quest for Best Execution Frontier ....................................................... 451
Example ....................................................... ............................................. 456
Important Findi ngs ............................................................................... 464
Conclusion ............... ................................................................................. 466
CHAPTER 18 Quantitative Analysis with TCA ...................................................... 469
Introduction ............................................................................................... 469
Quantitative Overlays........................................................................... 469
Market Impact Factor Scores ............................................................... 469
Cost Curves .......................................................................................... 469
Alpha Capture ...................................................................................... 470
Investment Capacity............................................................................. 470
Portfolio Optimization.......................................................................... 470
Backtesting .............................................. ............................................. 470
Liquidation Cost................................................................................... 471
Sensitivity Analysis.............................................................................. 471
Are The Existing Models Useful Enough For Portfolio
Construction?....................................................................................... 472
Current State of Vendor Market Impact Models ................................. 473
Pretrade of Pretrades ................................................................................. 475
Applications ......................................................................................... 476
Example #1 .......................................................................................... 476
Example #2 .......................................................................................... 477
Example #3 .......................................................................................... 477
Example #4 .......................................................................................... 477
How Expensive is it to Trade? ................................................................. 478
Acquisition and Liquidation Costs....................................................... 481
Portfolio ManagementdScreening Techniques .................................. 484
Backtesting Strategies ............................................................................... 487
Market Impact Simulation ........................................................................ 490
Simulation Scenario ............................................................................. 491
Multi-Asset Class Investing...................................................................... 495
Investing in Beta Exposure and Other Factors .................................... 495
Example #5 .......................................................................................... 495
Multi-Asset Trading Costs........................................................................ 498
Global Equity Markets......................................................................... 500
Multi-Asset Classes................................. ............................................. 501
Market Impact Factor Scores.................................................................... 508
Current State of Market Impact Factor Scores .................................... 510
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