This article presents various techniques for downside risk control of an emerging markets equity index or long only fund. We evaluate different risk adjusted strategies applied to dynamic asset allocation between an emerging markets equity index and cash and at a later stage between an emerging...

The recent financial crisis and the corresponding market crash have had a tremendous impact on investors with significant exposures to equity markets but without appropriate risk control tools. Indeed, within just a few weeks a number of pension funds, university endowments, and mutual funds...