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diversification against the benefits in terms of the standard deviation of the returns. Suppose a safety first investor cares about …
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reduction is diversification; however, evidence for the effectiveness of diversification remains inconclusive. According to … diversification and synchronization compensation. This study introduces “desynchronicity”, a process that operationalizes … 332 firms (from COMPUSTAT) were used to empirically test the relationships between diversification and risk, and …
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huge losses for financial institutions. Diversification ratio (DR) measures the degree of diversification using the Value … effect of diversification for extreme risks. In this paper, we empirically examine the DR strategy by using more than 350 S … comparison includes annualized portfolio return, modified Sharpe ratio, maximum drawdown, portfolio concentration, portfolio …
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Risk diversification is the basis of insurance and investment. It is thus crucial to study the effects that could limit … occurrence, systemic risk can reduce dramatically the diversification benefits. It is clearly revealed via a non …
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The literature on capital allocation is biased towards an asset modeling framework rather than an actuarial framework. The asset modeling framework leads to the proliferation of inappropriate assumptions about the effect of insurance line of business growth on aggregate loss distributions. This...
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The aim of this study was to determine whether referendums affect stock price risks and returns, using an event study approach. Daily end period data for the Swiss stock market index, the STOXX European market index, and the Swiss/US exchange rate running from the beginning of 2004 to June 2021,...
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One of the main challenges investors have to face is model uncertainty. Typically, the dynamic of the assets is modeled using two parameters: the drift vector and the covariance matrix, which are both uncertain. Since the variance/covariance parameter is assumed to be estimated with a certain...
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