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bond risk premium and equity risk premium using a methodology that isolates frequencies (of the predictors) with the …
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Recently, the concept of "blue finance" was introduced to the world. Blue finance envisages that ocean firms issue financial instruments to obtain funds and take necessary measures to make the ocean environment blue. To measure the blueness of a firm, we estimate the blueness index using GHG...
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This paper analyzes the performance of index-based portfolios across developed, emerging, and frontier markets. Besides considering stocks and bonds for portfolio construction, we investigate how investment opportunity sets are enlarged when credit default swaps (CDSs) are added into portfolios...
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the optimal bond portfolio under both inflation and indexation lags in closed form. We show that indexation lags increase … the number of state variables characterizing both the bond prices and the optimal portfolio. The lag-induced state …
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The present paper looks into the question of whether it provides the investor diversification benefits to include sukuk (Islamic bonds) in their portfolio of bonds, and what these might be quantitatively. Analysed are sovereign bonds of Bahrain, Pakistan, Qatar, Malaysia, and the UAE. The...
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Equities tend to give high returns accompanied with high risk level. Commodities exhibit similar nature but exhibit inverse return movements compared to equities. Although, Equities and Commodities have risk- return parity, the volume traded in commodities is much larger and have longer trading...
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Many central banks adopt an active investment style for reserve management. This paper discusses various possible enhancements to active management tools and processes to generate extra returns in an increasingly challenging environment. The proposed framework is based on an affine model, which...
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Recent policy discussion includes the introduction of diversification requirements for sovereign bond portfolios of … sovereign bond portfolios of the major European banks. First, we capture the dependence structure of European countries … analysis. We then analyze the risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the largest European banks and …
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-return relations of government bond portfolios. Motivated by this finding, we derive a global stochastic discount factor, which prices … excess returns of individual bond markets and international bond portfolio strategies. The SDF is supported by standard … validation tests, but the fraction of unpriced components of bond returns is high, at around 50%. Hedging internationally …
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Bond fund performance regressions usually lever expected benchmark returns linearly to the fund’s risk exposure. The … it to government bond funds and separate accounts. While separate accounts outperform funds, both show strongly negative …
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