Unstable fluctuations in financial markets caused by the 2008 financial crisis and currently by the Covid-19 crisis have generated greater concern among investors regarding their capital protection. In view of this situation, the consideration of alternative investments has taken a relevant...

Risk driver contributions are key to understanding portfolio risk. Often, this is done by decomposing portfolio ‘volatility’. This is problematic in the presence of non-elliptical distributions. Some asset managers propose switching to value-at-risk (VaR) or expected shortfall (ES) as risk...

This study explores the redundancy of the value premium by conducting a Fourier analysis. The results illustrate periodicity in the value premium and merges the Adaptive Market Hypothesis with the Efficient Market hypothesis. The value premium is considered to be redundant due to structural...

In this paper we describe the history of different portfolio construction approaches from a simple Risk Parity approach and its extension Equal Risk Contribution over Markovitz mean-variance to conditional Value-at-Risk and others like minimum Value-at-Risk or Average Drawdown. We implement the...

The purpose of this article is to assess whether correct application of robust estimators in construction of minimum variance portfolios' (MVP) allows to achieve better investment results in comparison with portfolios defined using classical MLE estimators. Theoretical robust portfolios...

This paper proposes a model for discrete-time hedging based on continuous-time movements in portfolio and foreign currency exchange rate returns. In particular, the vector of optimal currency exposures is shown to be given by the negative realized regression coefficients from a one-period...

In this research, we optimized fixed, glide path and dynamic portfolios, aimed at providing a solid pension adjusted for inflation. We optimized these portfolios for two performance functions that take inflation rates into account. We compared the performance of these portfolios in terms of...

GLOBAL FINANCE LIQUIDITY RISK REVISITED: JP Morgan Alternative Assets Portfolio Liquidity Assessment Framework & Models: $500 Billion Fund of Funds: 17 Asset ClassesPresentations atJP Morgan World HQ, 270 Park Ave, Manhattan, NY, USAToJP Morgan Global Head of Quant Research & Analytics, JP...