Using daily and monthly MSCI index returns of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) markets for the period 2007 and 2021, this study aims to examine if there are any advantages to diversification in ASEAN markets for Vietnamese investors and if those perks have altered between pre and...

This paper provides a new method to disentangle the systematic component from the idiosyncratic part of the risk associated with trend following strategies. A simple statistical approach, combined with standard dimension reduction techniques, enables us to extract the common trending part in any...

We estimate trends in diversification for equity, debt, and real estate within and across countries. After 2000, we uncover a marked and near ubiquitous decline in diversification, which coincides with sharply higher levels of investment risk. This decline is associated with country economic...

Investors and financial economists have long debated the benefits of global equity market diversification. Fans argue that diversifying globally reduces portfolio risk without harming long-term return. Some critics counter with the observation that because markets get more correlated during...

We present new international diversification indexes across equity, sovereign debt, and real estate. The indexes reveal a marked and near ubiquitous decline in diversification potential across asset classes and markets for the post-2000 period. Analysis of panel data suggests that the decline is...

We propose a non-parametric procedure for estimating systemic co-jumps and independent idiosyncratic jumps, and study associated news reported in Factiva and Bloomberg for thirty five stock markets from 1988 to 2014. Our results suggest that it is important to distinguish between systemic...

This paper analyses the diversification properties of country equity factors across six equity factors and twenty developed markets from 1991 to 2015. The factors considered are the market excess return, size, value, momentum, low beta and quality. I find substantial diversification benefits...

Over the past decade, investors and financial advisors have shown renewed interest in increasing international equity exposure. Investors confront one of two key issues in making decisions on their strategic allocations, depending on the starting point of their portfolios: 1) for a U.S.-only...

Typically smaller and less developed than their better-known emerging market (EM) counterparts, frontier market (FM) countries offer attractive long-term growth and diversification potential. However, investors must balance these possible rewards against a host of risks and challenges endemic to...