With the recent development of the European debt crisis, traditional index bond management has been severely called into question. We focus here on the risk issues raised by the classical market-capitalization weighting scheme. We propose an approach to properly measure sovereign credit risk in...

In this paper, we examine the materiality of ESG on country creditworthiness from a credit risk and fundamental analysis viewpoint. To address this, we consider a granular set of 269 indicators within the three ESG pillars to determine what the sovereign bond market is pricing in. From this set...

Estimating asset correlations is difficult in practice since there is little available data and many parameters have to be found. Paul Demey, Jean-Frédéric Jouanin, Céline Roget and Thierry Roncalli present a tractable version of the multi-factor Merton model in which firms are sorted into...