Cryptocurrencies (CCs) become more interesting for institutional investors’ strategic asset allocation and will be a fixed component of professional portfolios in future. This asset class differs from established assets especially in terms of the severe manifestation of statistical parameters....

This paper evaluates and assesses the risk associated with capital allocation in cryptocurrencies (CCs). In this regard, we take a basket of 27 CCs and the CC index EWCI− into account. After considering a series of statistical tests we find the stable distribution (SDI) to be the most...