As hedge fund replication based on factor models has encountered growing interest among professionals and academics, and despite the launch of numerous products (indexes and mutual funds) in the past year, it has faced many critics. In this paper, we consider two of the main critiques, namely...

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...

[eng] A Return to Average Rates in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism: 1987-1995 by Jean Sébastien Pentecôte and Thierry Roncalli . This paper studies the effect of the return to average daily rates for the European Exchange Rate Mechanism currencies and the dollar against the deutschemark...

Hedge fund replication based on factor models is encountering growing interest. In this paper, we investigate the implications of substituting standard rolling windows regressions, which appear ad-hoc, with more efficient methodologies like the Kalman filter. We show that the copycats...