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This paper introduces a sparse and stable optimization approach for a multi-currency asset allocation problem. We study the benefits of joint optimization of assets and currencies as opposed to the standard industry practice of managing currency risk via so-called currency overlay strategies. In...
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We solve the problem of optimal risk management for an investor holding an illiquid, alpha generating fund and hedging … and deleveraging, or keeping his current position in the illiquid instrument and hedging away some of the risk while …
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to strengthen the statistical evidence on the predicted shortrun exchange rate dynamics. Cross-sectional currency hedging … and fundamentals. Speculation ; Limited Arbitrage ; Hedging ; Exchange Rate Disconnect …
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currency bias. The investor's dislike for model uncertainty induces a disproportionately high currency hedging demand. The …
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We discuss risk measures representing the minimum amount of capital a financial institution needs to raise and invest in a pre-specified eligible asset to ensure it is adequately capitalized. Most of the literature has focused on cash-additive risk measures, for which the eligible asset is a...
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The theory of acceptance sets and their associated risk measures plays a key role in the design of capital adequacy tests. The objective of this paper is to investigate, in the context of bounded financial positions, the class of surplus-invariant acceptance sets. These are characterized by the...
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The paper proposes a framework for large-scale portfolio optimization which accounts for all the major stylized facts of multivariate financial returns, including volatility clustering, dynamics in the dependency structure, asymmetry, heavy tails, and nonellipticity. It introduces a so-called...
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Monetary risk measures classify a financial position by the minimal amount of external capital that must be added to the position to make it acceptable.We propose a new concept: intrinsic risk measures. The definition via external capital is avoided and only internal resources appear. An...
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ranging from manufacturing to energy retailing, where risk averse fi rms decide on their hedging strategies before their … product market strategies. We fi nd that hedging modi es the pricing and production strategies of firms. This strategic effect … shareholders risk aversion. It has diametrically opposed impacts depending on the nature of product market competition: hedging …
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