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An important aspect of portfolio risk management is the analysis of the overall risk with respect to the allocations to the underlying assets. Marginal risk is the traditional tool used by portfolio managers to accomplish this. However, this metric is only meaningful when a position is levered...
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Although portfolio management didn’t change much during the 40 years after the seminal works of Markowitz and Sharpe, the development of risk budgeting techniques marked an important milestone in the deepening of the relationship between risk and asset management. Risk parity then became a...
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We discuss linear regression approaches to conditional Value-at-Risk and Average Value-at-Risk (Conditional Value-at-Risk, Expected Shortfall) risk measures. Two estimation procedures are considered for each conditional risk measure, one is direct and the other is based on residual analysis of...
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Risk parity is an allocation method used to build diversified portfolios that does not rely on any assumptions of expected returns, thus placing risk management at the heart of the strategy. This explains why risk parity became a popular investment model after the global financial crisis in...
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Complexity theory is designed to bring order out of a rough-and- tumble world, something close to every insurance professional's or actuary's heart. Whether applied in the laboratory or as part of a mathematical model, it can do wonderful things . But in the real world it's just what its name...
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results in insignificant abnormal hedge returns. In contrast, investing based on the inflation effect on companies …’ nonmonetary holdings consistently yields economically and statistically significant abnormal hedge returns. These findings … indicate that inflation-based abnormal hedge returns are driven not by the exposure of companies’ net monetary holdings to …
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financial instruments that can be successfully used to hedge unknown catastrophe risks. …
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This empirical study proposes a dependency analysis of monthly financial time series. We use the overlapping technique and non-parametric correlation in order to increase both accuracy and consistency. Copulas are used to test extreme co-movements between financial securities. Our results...
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stochastic recovery modelling. This paper presents an extension to the standard Gaussian copula framework that introduces a …
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-factor Gaussian copula model and can easily be implemented within the framework of the existing computational infrastructure. As it … turns out, the Gaussian copula model can itself be recast into this framework highlighting its limitations. The model can … also demonstrates its ability to generate reasonable hedge ratios. …
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