Time-varying correlations between asset returns and implications to risk management.
This paper studies the quarterly and overall performances of equal-weighted portfolios created through the removal of an asset with high correlation in each quarter based on different criteria, and that of minimum-variance portfolios with and without short-sale constraints as an alternative strategy...
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| author | Liao, Fengyi. |
| author2 | Charlie Charoenwong |
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| description | This paper studies the quarterly and overall performances of equal-weighted portfolios created through the removal of an asset with high correlation in each quarter based on different criteria, and that of minimum-variance portfolios with and without short-sale constraints as an alternative strategy for investors, using out-of-sample tests. Daily returns of ten prominent market indices across equities, bonds, commodities and real estate spanning different geographical regions are used to compute correlation matrices over 158 quarters starting from the year 1972. Results indicate that both 1/M portfolios which have one asset removed each underperform the benchmark 1/N portfolio as well as the minimum-variance portfolios according to the corresponding Sharpe ratios and Jensen’s alphas. The 1/M portfolios display similarly high fluctuations in performances as the benchmark, while the minimum-variance portfolios exhibit stable performance and lower draw-downs especially during financial crises but at the expense of lower returns. An analysis on the dispersion and composition of time-varying correlations show that rising correlations in recent years lead to larger market fluctuations and the lack of appropriate assets leads to suboptimal diversification. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/463562023-05-19T06:16:15Z Time-varying correlations between asset returns and implications to risk management. Liao, Fengyi. Charlie Charoenwong Nanyang Business School DRNTU::Business::Finance::Asset allocation DRNTU::Business::Finance::Risk management This paper studies the quarterly and overall performances of equal-weighted portfolios created through the removal of an asset with high correlation in each quarter based on different criteria, and that of minimum-variance portfolios with and without short-sale constraints as an alternative strategy for investors, using out-of-sample tests. Daily returns of ten prominent market indices across equities, bonds, commodities and real estate spanning different geographical regions are used to compute correlation matrices over 158 quarters starting from the year 1972. Results indicate that both 1/M portfolios which have one asset removed each underperform the benchmark 1/N portfolio as well as the minimum-variance portfolios according to the corresponding Sharpe ratios and Jensen’s alphas. The 1/M portfolios display similarly high fluctuations in performances as the benchmark, while the minimum-variance portfolios exhibit stable performance and lower draw-downs especially during financial crises but at the expense of lower returns. An analysis on the dispersion and composition of time-varying correlations show that rising correlations in recent years lead to larger market fluctuations and the lack of appropriate assets leads to suboptimal diversification. BUSINESS 2011-12-02T07:50:07Z 2011-12-02T07:50:07Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46356 en Nanyang Technological University 18 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Business::Finance::Asset allocation DRNTU::Business::Finance::Risk management Liao, Fengyi. Time-varying correlations between asset returns and implications to risk management. |
| title | Time-varying correlations between asset returns and implications to risk management. |
| title_full | Time-varying correlations between asset returns and implications to risk management. |
| title_fullStr | Time-varying correlations between asset returns and implications to risk management. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Time-varying correlations between asset returns and implications to risk management. |
| title_short | Time-varying correlations between asset returns and implications to risk management. |
| title_sort | time varying correlations between asset returns and implications to risk management |
| topic | DRNTU::Business::Finance::Asset allocation DRNTU::Business::Finance::Risk management |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46356 |
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