Questions tagged [diversification]
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Which portfolio is more “diversified”: the $\frac{1}{N}$, the MDP or the max decorrelation?
Equally-weighted portfolio: weights each asset the same $w_i = 1/N$
Maximum diversification portfolio: maximizes the ratio, $\frac{w' \sigma}{\sqrt{w' \Sigma w}}$
Maximum decorrelation portfolio: ...
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Non-linear correlation (co-dependence) and the efficient frontier
The graph below shows how the efficient frontier for 2 assets bends into a sharp bisection as correlation decreases from $1$ to $-1$, with $\rho=-1$ being the most diversified, and highly unattainable ...
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Why is standard error used to show diversification effect for unsystematic risk?
quite long text incoming, sorry for that: While reading a corporate finance textbook, i came across a section describing the effect of diversification as well as the systematic and unsystematic risk. ...
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How can beta be negative? [closed]
I've been reading about the security market line and the definition of beta as
$$\beta_i = \frac{Cov(R_i, R_m)}{Var(R_m)} $$
for any asset (doesn't have to be an efficient portfolio), and have read ...
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Total portfolio VaR greater than aggregated individual VaRs
I am facing something weird in a simulation.
I have calculated a portfolio VaR: 100\$.
Then I aggregated the VaR for individual position (loans) and obtain: 98\$.
I thought it was not possible for the ...
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Is there a sound logic for buying a portfolio of call options in the same ratio as you would buy the underlying shares?
Suppose I believe it would be profitable to build an investment portfolio by investing, say, USD 30,000 in stocks in the following ratio: 30% in shares of CompanyA, 30% in CompanyB and 40% in CompanyC....
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how to construct a diversified portfolio based on correlation
I have a porfolio of indexes and I built up a python model based on spearman correlation (I used a spearman and not a pearson because, after running some test on outliers and normality ...
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Can simple risk management outperform portfolio optimization like this, or is there most likely an error?
I am using a simulation approach to compare the performances achievable by simple risk management and portfolio optimization for portfolio selection. My problem is that my results indicate that simple ...
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Is time diversification effective?
If the returns are log-normal, how do I find the probability of negative returns, since log can only take positive values as an argument. Also, for time = more than 1 year, how do I find the ...
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Formula for underdiversification
I'm trying to develop a study which links a person's demographic and social characteristics to a tendency to under diversify their portfolio. So far I was accounting for risk aversion and just going ...
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Maximum Diversification Strategy without risk free asset
I am currently dealing with the Maximum Diversification Strategy and I am trying to understand the synthetic universe approach from Choueifaty et al.(https://www.tobam.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/...
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Which Maximum Diversification Approach in MATLAB is correct?
I am currently trying to find the portfolio weights of the Maximum Diversification Portfolio and found two approaches which result in different outcomes.
The first one is based on this paper:https://...
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Is Ledoit-Wolf Shrinkage with a Constant Correlation Prior Reasonable for a Stock/Bond Mix?
I've been looking into Ledoit-Wolf shrinkage but I've found the papers concentrate on large numbers of assets that tend to all be highly correlated. Often a universe of large cap stocks.
I'm ...
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Magnitude of the Diversification Ratio
How would I interpret the magnitude of the Diversification ratio? I know that the higher the number, the better, but is 1.1 massively different that 1.2?
For example a sharpe ratio of 0.25 is ...
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Portfolio Allocation given Sharpe Ratio
If there are two portfolios with sharpe ratios of 1.2 and 0.5, what would be the allocation rationale.
If the correlation between portfolios is:
$a. 0 $
$b. 0.8 $
$c.-0.8 $
I see there is a ...
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Intuitive Explanation for Shannon's Demon?
I am reading Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone, and I am puzzled by a phenomenon called "Shannon's Demon", which Claude Shannon allegedly proposed in a series of lectures, and preserved only by ...
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Is it better to express a currency position through multiple pairs?
I use a trend-following approach where I look for trends in various currency pairs such as GBP/USD or EUR/USD and then take a position in the Spot currency. I measure the performance of my strategy by ...
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Zero-beta assets and the Sharpe-Lintner CAPM
I'm reading The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence (Fama and French, 2004) and came across the following statement:
"A risky asset’s return is uncorrelated with the market
return—its ...
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Decreasing dependence during the financial crisis?
In "Is the Potential for International Diversification Disappearing? A Dynamic
Copula Approach" by Christoffersen et al. (2012), the authors present the concept of Conditional Diversification Benefit ...
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$0$-beta stock and diversification
If we invest $w$ in the market portfolio and $1 - w$ in the risk-free asset, and observe a $0$-beta asset with expected return greater than the return on the risk-free asset, how can this be used in ...
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How to measure if investors are diversified in a stock market?
My question is related to this question but it is not the same.
Consider the US stock market. How can I tell if people trading in this market hold properly diversified portfolios?
Is there some ...
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Value-at-Risk “hiding risk in the tail” and diversification?
I have a question regarding Value-at-Risk and diversification?
When one says that VaR "hides the risk in the tail", does one mean that if we for instance look at VaR at level p=0.05 say, we might get ...
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What can I use to measure of diversification?
I have to come up with a measure of diversification for trade (this can tie in closely to diversification as regards portfolios).
Are there any well known measures of portfolio diversification?
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Can adding an uncorrelated high vol strategy to a low vol portfolio result in a portfolio with even lower volatility?
Let's say I have fund A with 20% annualized volatility and portfolio B with 15% annualized volatility. If A and B have 0 correlation, can the combination of these funds have volatility < 15% ? Are ...
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Risk minimization by investing in all assets with positive expected return
Suppose I have an amount $T$ to invest and $N$ available assets.
The stochastic return per invested unit of asset $i$ is $R_i$.
The variance and the expectation of $R_i$ are $\sigma^2_i$ and $\...
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Why does it “say” portfolio diversification not suitable during market turmoil?
Currently I am trying to get a hold of MPT, asset allocation and related applications.
While reading a particular resource, it says diversification works best for "normal" financial markets and ...
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Is there any open-source library, implementing “exchange” to be used for algorithms running on the same computer?
Question: Is there any open-source project/library, which can act as a "local exchange" for agents (algorithms), running on the same computer?
Clarification: by "local exchange" I mean, that the ...
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How to adjust local currency returns to US$/EUR return?
Iam doing research on return characteristics. As of today the scope of the research has changed from a local investor point of view to an international investor point of view. This basically means ...
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Call options portfolio: what would the underlyings' moments to be maximized?
Let you have only three underlyings, like SPY, TLT and GLD, and you want to buy $n_{1}$ Call options on SPY, $n_{2}$ Call options on TLT and $n_{3}$ Call options on GLD... with a limited budget, that ...
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Is this comment right about subadditivity?
I found this comment in a book I bought about risk management: Risk Management in Banking by Joel Bessis.
This is the well-known rule that states that the sum of individual
risks is less than the ...
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St Petersburg lottery pricing & short investing horizons
I am a statistician (no solid background in finance). Please forward me to a book \ chapter \ paper to resolve the following general question.
Suppose we have a stock with the following monthly return ...
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age-sensitive correlation measurements in finances
When it comes to comparing returns or prices of instruments like stocks/ETFs, are there any well-established formulas, or ones in common use, that place stronger emphasis on recent correlations more ...
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portfolio diversification tester
Are there any online tools (optionally with developer API, to spare me the scraping) that given an existing portfolio, calculate how well a new candidate position would score to increase combined ...
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How to simulate correlated assets for illustrating portfolio diversification?
I have seen multiple instances where people try to explain the diversification effects of having assets with a certain level of correlation, especially in the "most diversified portfolio" literature. ...
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Should the average investor hold commodities as part of a broadly diversified portfolio?
Many mutual funds sell "asset allocation" products which include appropriately sized investments in a variety of asset classes meant for a prototypical investor. Some of these, such as PIMCO, even ...
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How do I find the most diversified portfolio, or least correlated subset, of stocks?
I have a trading system that chooses top 10 stocks in Nasdaq 100 ranked on relative strength and some other factors. However, I'd like to take positions in only 5 of these 10 stocks based on how ...
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How does one analyze diversification if stock prices follow a Cauchy distribution?
How does diversification actually lead to less variance in a portfolio? I'm looking for a formal reason why this is the case. There are a number of explanations I have been able to find, but they make ...
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Benefits of Diversification and Rebalancing with negatively skewed leptokurtic return distribution?
I am missing tools to investigate this issue. I am trying to solve this question here. What kind of issues should you acknowledge over the naive diversification/rebalancing with normal distribution? ...
