Inter-temporal risk parity is a strategy that rebalances risky assets and cash in order to target a constant level of … ex-ante risk over time. When applied to equities and compared to a buy-and-hold portfolio it is known to improve the … Sharpe ratio and reduce drawdowns. We apply inter-temporal risk parity strategies to factor investing, namely value and …

We introduce a new class of momentum strategies, the risk-adjusted time series momentum (RAMOM) strategies, which are … how these volatility measures can be used for risk management. We find that momentum risk management significantly … increases Sharpe ratios, but at the same time may lead to more pronounced negative skewness and tail risk. Furthermore, momentum …

Undiversifiable (or systematic risk) has long been an enemy of investors. Many countercyclical strategies have been … technique, founded on the premise of physiological bias and risk-aversion. We take a behavioral discussion in order to … negative betas to the S&P 500, while exhibiting similar risk-adjusted excess returns over both bull and bear markets. Further …

systematic risk is highly nonlinear in extreme scenarios-especially during the subprime crisis. We find that countercyclical …-traditional risk premia by deliberately increasing their systematic risk while the later focus more on minimizing risk. Our results … suggest that the hedge fund strategies' betas respond more to illiquidity uncertainty than to illiquidity risk during crises …

horizons. We claim that the commonly employed variance ratio is not capable of exclusively determining whether investment risk …

IVOL and returns) is a missing risk factor. We show analytically that if IVOL proxies for a missing risk factor, then the … risk factors. Overall, our results suggest that both diversifiable (i.e., true idiosyncratic risk) and non …-diversifiable risk play a role in explaining the IVOL puzzle …

We discuss how to build ETF risk models. Our approach anchors on i) first building a multilevel (non …-)binary classification/taxonomy for ETFs, which is utilized in order to define the risk factors, and ii) then building the risk models based … on these risk factors by utilizing the heterotic risk model construction of https://ssrn.com/abstract=2600798 (for binary …