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We provide robust empirical evidence that uncovers the reason for the observed closer relationship between the bond … market versus the equity market and the macroeconomy. Our results indicate that the tight bond market-macroeconomy link is …
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diversified strategy in the market, then there is no sudden bankruptcy. After that a deterministic evolutionary bond market is … studied in detail. It is certified that a bond market is evolutionary stable, which is equal to arbitrage-free if and only if … the total returns defined in this paper across all the assets are the same, or each bond is evaluated by an improper …
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This paper demonstrates that catastrophe (cat) bonds provide substantial benefits of diversification when added to an investor's opportunity set already consisting of securities from traditional asset classes. We find that cat bonds significantly reduce drawdown measures and tail risk under...
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Two Fong-Vasicek immunization results are discussed and applied in relation to asset portfolios of a sample of Italian insurance companies managing life insurance with-profit savings. Firstly, we analyzed the contribution of Fong and Vasicek (1984) providing a lower bound on the “shortfall”...
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We estimate corporate bond portfolios using numerous asset-specific characteristics. Our portfolio weights accommodate …
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A system is implemented that simulates a bond portfolio over the long-term of liabilities. It pays all liabilities and … of return potential and risk drivers on the bond allocation, on assumptions and on market conditions in order to improve … €10billion insurer portfolio. Current market conditions favor short bond duration, reducing government bonds and mixing in …
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This chapter provides a perspective on the rapidly developing literature on investment performance evaluation. I use the stochastic discount factor approach to present and critique current performance measurement techniques in a unified setting. I offer a number of suggestions to improve...
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With the recent development of the European debt crisis, traditional index bond management has been severely called …-budgeting approach is the most appropriate scheme to manage sovereign risk in bond portfolios and gives very appealing results with … respect to active management of bond portfolios …
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there is no clear common sense for that. Our main purpose in this paper is to present how the classical Fisher-Weil bond … change approximation and the associated bond hedging technique can be enhanced, such that we are able to solve simultaneously … these two issues. The good approximation of the bond or portfolio change we derive, allows to get an interesting consequence …
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