常数比例投资组合保险(CPPI)策略 --捐赠型基金投资策略的最优选择

本文采用Merton提出的处理捐赠型基金的连续时间模型的一般框架，分析了在风险资产为几何布朗运动，效用函数为CRRA效用函数，且捐赠型基金有动态最低支出时的最优支出策略和最优投资策略，结果表明存在一条策略基准线，当基金的总资产在策略基准线之上时，基金管理人关于基金支出与投资策略的选择与不存在最低支出的要求时所作出的决策是一样的，但是一旦基金的总资产低于这条策略基准线时，基金管理人便需要考虑到基金将来必要的支出，并实际影响到他对投资策略的选择，此时基金管理人可作的最优选择是：最低的支出和一种为复制幂收益函数期权的CPPI投资策略。     

基于Copula的开放式基金流动性风险研究

从基金管理者的角度出发,引入了一种开放式基金预留现金和债券比例管理模型,它可以使满足及时赎回需求概率很大且预留现金和债券最少.使用二元Archimedean Copula分析了预留现金和债券比例的计算公式,通过数值实例分析了预留比例公式的合理性,为基金管理人制定投资目标时随时控制预留现金的比例,提供一个参考的标准.     

风险内生的委托代理模型研究

证券投资基金的委托代理关系与一般的委托代理关系不同,在一般的委托代理关系中,产出的风险是外生的,而基金产出的风险是内生的,即风险是由基金管理人来选择的.在模型假设的背景下,在不考虑基金管理人的努力成本时,基金委托代理关系中不存在道德风险问题.如果考虑基金管理人的努力成本,当其行为不可观测时,基金投资者无法通过契约参数的变化来影响基金管理人的努力水平,但此时投资组合的风险水平将低于基金管理人行为可观测时的情况.实证研究证实了基金收益分享比例与基金管理人努力程度无关的模型推论.     

封闭式债券基金风格模糊聚类分析

封闭式债券基金能够在降低风险的同时获取投资收益,并且有着较长的久期,是稳健型投资者实现配置型投资收益较常选择的一个投资品种.利用模糊聚类分析,对封闭式债券基金主要的评价参数进行量化分析,从风险控制、收益水平、选时能力等方面将市场上现有的封闭式债券基金进了投资风格上的划分,为投资者如何选择封闭式债券基金提供了一个较为直观的方法.     

赎回风险约束的开放式基金管理费研究

从赎回风险的视角研究开放式基金的管理费.以赎回风险为内生变量构建了基金管理人的动态投资决策模型,利用动态优化的Bellman原理得到了最优管理费.进一步分析发现:一是基金管理费与基金管理人的投资能力正相关,即基金管理人的投资能力越强,收取的基金管理费越多;二是基金管理费与投资者的赎回率负相关,即投资者的赎回率越大,基金管理费越少.而且选取中国股票型开放式基金的数据构建VAR计量经济模型,检验基金管理人的投资能力与投资者的赎回风险对基金管理费的影响,实证结果支持理论模型的结论.     

开放式基金巨额赎回情况下预留现金比例的确定方法

巨额赎回是造成开放式基金流动性风险的主要原因。当发生“挤赎”现象时,就要求基金管理人要有足够的现金来满足投资者的赎回要求。本文就开放式基金的现金预留比例问题建立了模型,在赎回量服从GAMMA分布的情况下,得出不同概率条件下的最优现金预留比例,从而为基金管理人规避这种由巨额赎回引起的流动性风险提供了一种理论依据。     

对冲基金复制技术及其在中国的可行性研究

介绍了对冲基金复制技术及目前国际流行的主要复制方法,并通过利用因子分析法来对国内明星基金——华夏大盘进行收益率复制进行了实证研究与复制策略投资绩效分析.结论表明,在我国证券市场上,基金复制策略虽不能取得超越被复制对象的业绩,但仍可取得优于一般基金的业绩,即表现优于基金指数.这将为丰富我国基金投资手段、满足投资者需求提供一定的借鉴与帮助.     

具有随机保护水平的跳跃扩散模型下的动态基金保护定价

动态基金保护可以确保投资者的基金价格在投资期内不会低于某个投资障碍水平.用两个相关的跳扩散模型来分别刻画动态基金保护的基金价格和障碍水平,利用首中时的Laplace变换给出了超指数跳扩散过程下,动态基金保护价格的Laplace变换的显示表达式.利用Gaver-Stehfest算法,给出了动态资金保护价格的一些数值结果.     

中证开放式基金指数和GARCH-M模型

基于开放式基金指数周收益率时间序列的非正态性和厚尾特性,以中证开放式基金指数为例,运用GARCH-M模型进行研究,系统地分析我国不同类型的开放式基金的投资风险.实证分析表明:GARCH-M模型对中证开放式基金指数周收益率的拟合效果较好,并为预测我国开放式基金的投资风险提供了科学依据.     

基于半参数多元Copula-GARCH模型的开放式基金投资组合风险分析

利用Copula技术对我国开放式基金市场的投资组合进行了风险分析。为克服传统Copula模型对金融尾部数据刻画能力的不足,建立了半参数的多元Copula-GARCH模型,灵活地对各支基金的边缘分布进行拟合,刻画了开放式基金投资组合的相依结构。并利用基于Copula技术的蒙特卡洛模拟,对投资组合进行了VaR分析,结果证实了所建立模型的可行性和有效性。     

基金经理过度自信对基金收益与风险的影响研究

本文扩展了以前的研究范围，考察了基金经理过度自信对基金收益与风险的影响。与以前研究不同的是。我们在模型中引进了基金经理的能力这一参数，并假设基金经理从接收到的信号中提取信息的多少依赖于其能力的大小。我们发现。过度自信导致基金经理交易较多数量的风险资产。结果使得基金获得了较高的收益。但同时基金的风险也较高。从不同的角度。我们进一步证实了以前的研究结论。     

Optimal management of DC pension plan in a stochastic interest rate and stochastic volatility framework

This paper investigates an optimal investment strategy of DC pension plan in a stochastic interest rate and stochastic volatility framework. We apply an affine model including the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) model and the Vasicek mode to characterize the interest rate while the stock price is given by the Heston’s stochastic volatility (SV) model. The pension manager can invest in cash, bond and stock in the financial market. Thus, the wealth of the pension fund is influenced by the financial risks in the market and the stochastic contribution from the fund participant. The goal of the fund manager is, coping with the contribution rate, to maximize the expectation of the constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility of the terminal value of the pension fund over a guarantee which serves as an annuity after retirement. We first transform the problem into a single investment problem, then derive an explicit solution via the stochastic programming method. Finally, the numerical analysis is given to show the impact of financial parameters on the optimal strategies.     

The Optimal Interaction between a Hedge Fund Manager and Investor

ABSTRACT

This study explores hedge funds from the perspective of investors and the motivation behind their investments. We model a typical hedge fund contract between an investor and a manager, which includes the manager’s special reward scheme, i.e., partial ownership, incentives and early closure conditions. We present a continuous stochastic control problem for the manager’s wealth on a hedge fund comprising one risky asset and one riskless bond as a basis to calculate the investors’ wealth. Then we derive partial differential equations (PDEs) for each agent and numerically obtain the unique viscosity solution for these problems. Our model shows that the manager’s incentives are very high and therefore investors are not receiving profit compared to a riskless investment. We investigate a new type of hedge fund contract where the investor has the option to deposit additional money to the fund at half maturity time. Results show that investors’ inflow increases proportionally with the expected rate of return of the risky asset, but even in low rates of return, investors inflow money to keep the fund open. Finally, comparing the contracts with and without the option, we spot that investors are sometimes better off without the option to inflow money, thus creating a negative value of the option.     

Optimal investment for a pension fund under inflation risk

This paper investigates an optimal investment problem faced by a defined contribution (DC) pension fund manager under inflationary risk. It is assumed that a representative member of a DC pension plan contributes a fixed share of his salary to the pension fund during the finite time horizon [0, T]. The pension contributions are invested continuously in a risk-free bond, an index bond and a stock. The objective is to maximize the expected utility of terminal value of the pension fund. By solving this investment problem we present a way to deal with the optimization problem, in case there is a (positive) endowment (or contribution), using the martingale method.     

On a Local-Search Heuristic for a Class of Tracking Error Minimization Problems in Portfolio Management

In this paper we describe a 2-phase simulated annealing heuristic approach for a special class of portfolio management problems: the problem of optimizing a stock fund with respect to tracking error and transaction costs over time subject to a set of complex constraints with a linear factor return model “feeding” the objective function with data. Our results on managing two real-world funds of a major German capital investment company have shown that this meta-heuristic provides proposals for the fund manager which are feasible with respect to the investment guidelines and excellent in quality in acceptable time. Thus the approach is ideally suited to be used routinely and interactively within a decision support system to assist the fund manager in his complex task of portfolio control and optimization.     

Arithmetic returns for investment performance measurement

This paper introduces new money-weighted metrics for investment performance analysis, based on arithmetic means of holding period rates weighted by the investment’s market values. This approach generates rates of return which measure a fund’s or portfolio’s performance and a fund manager’s performance. It also enables to show that the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is a weighted mean of holding period rates associated with interim values which differ from market values, so that value additivity is violated. The manager’s Arithmetic Internal Rate of Return (AIRR) is shown to be the true period equivalent of the cumulative Time Weighted Rate of Return (TWRR), whereas the period TWRR (a geometric return) provides a different ranking. The method is easily generalized for coping with varying benchmark rates. We also cope with the practical problem of estimating interim values whenever they are not available.     

通胀风险下基于HARA效用的DC型养老金计划

通货膨胀是养老基金管理过程中最直接最重要的影响因素之一. 假设通胀风险由服从几何布朗运动的物价指数来度量, 且瞬时期望通货膨胀率由Ornstein-Uhlenbeck过程来驱动. 金融市场由n+1种可连续交易的风险资产所构成, 养老基金管理者期望研究和解决通胀风险环境下DC型养老基金在累积阶段的最优投资策略问题, 以最大化终端真实财富过程的期望效用. 双曲绝对风险厌恶(HARA)效用函数具有一般的效用框架, 包含幂效用、指数效用和对数效用作为特例. 假设投资者对风险的偏好程度满足HARA效用, 运用随机最优控制理论和Legendre变换方法得到了最优投资策略的显式表达式.     

Time consistent pension funding in a defined benefit pension plan with non-constant discounting

We consider the time consistent management of a defined benefit stochastic pension plan where the participants have different rates of time preference and the fund manager collects this heterogeneity when discounting the future. The main objective is to select the amortization rate and the investment strategy minimizing both the contribution rate risk and the solvency risk. The problem is formulated as a stochastic control problem with non-constant rate of discount and is solved analytically by means of the dynamic programming approach and the technical interest rate is selected in order to keep stable the fund evolution within prescribed targets. A numerical illustration shows a comparative of the stability of the fund assets and the rate of contribution for a convex combination of exponential functions as discount function and for the constant discount case.     

基金契约中代理问题存在性研究

基金投资与基金经理之间的关系是一种委托一代理关系，这种委托一代理关系集中体现在基金契约中。为了激励基金经理能按照最大化基金投资的效用行动，减少代理问题，人们设计了各种类型的基金契约。本以一个最常用的线性基金契约为例，讨论分析了其中代理问题的存在性。