This paper presents a new method for improving the performance of trend-following trading strategies. This new approach improves the inherent problem of trend-following strategies, which is their lagging signals. We simulate alternative price paths of financial assets using a modification of a...

Cryptoassets, particularly Bitcoin, have attracted the attention of institutional investors during the latest price rallies of 2020 and 2021. The need for cryptoassets apart from Bitcoin in their portfolios is mostly unexplored in the current literature, and the general perception of...

Many sophisticated investors rely on scenario analysis to select a portfolio. These investors define prospective economic scenarios, assign probabilities to them, translate the scenarios into expected asset class returns, and select the portfolio with the highest expected return or expected...

Die Stabilität der Europäischen Währungsunion ist durch die derzeit angespannte Haushaltslage und den hohen Verschuldungsgrad einiger Mitgliedstaaten in Frage gestellt. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Auswirkungen verschiedener (Krisen-)Szenarien auf das Portfolio eines durchschnittlichen...

We derive no-arbitrage bounds for expected excess returns to generate scenarios used in financial optimization. The bounds allow to distinguish three regions: one where arbitrage opportunities will never exist, a second where arbitrage may be present, and a third, where arbitrage opportunities...

The impact of a stress scenario of default events on the loss distribution of a credit portfolio can be assessed by determining the loss distribution conditional on these events. While it is conceptually easy to estimate loss distributions conditional on default events by means of Monte Carlo...

In this review paper we recall a dynamic stochastic accumulation model for determining optimal decision between stock and bond investments during accumulation of pension savings. The model has been proposed and analyzed by the authors. We assume stock prices to be driven by a geometric Brownian...

The main aim of this paper is to analyze if pension funds managers are able to implement style timing strategies, one topic very important for an efficient management of an investment portfolio. Besides it is analyzed the stock-picking abilities of these managers. To this end, conditional and...

We present comprehensive evidence in support of giving liquidity equal standing to size, value/growth, and momentum as investment styles, as defined by Sharpe (1992). First, we show that financial market liquidity, as identified by stock turnover, is an economically significant indicator of...

We collect compensation policy data from 60 Chinese mutual fund companies, which covers 88% of assets under management by all active stock and stock-oriented hybrid mutual funds in China. Using the collected data, we investigate the portfolio pumping from a performance-based perspective. We find...