t-分布与不同风险度量下有效投资组合及其边缘的相互关系研究

In order to study the effect of different risk measures on the efficient portfolios (frontier) while properly describing the characteristic of return distributions in the stock market, it is assumed in this paper that the joint return distribution of risky assets obeys the multivariate t-distribution. Under the mean-risk analysis framework, the interrelationship of efficient portfolios (frontier) based on risk measures such as variance, value at risk (VaR), and expected shortfall (ES) is analyzed and compared. It is proved that, when there is no riskless asset in the market, the efficient frontier under VaR or ES is a subset of the mean-variance (MV) efficient frontier, and the efficient portfolios under VaR or ES are also MV efficient; when there exists a riskless asset in the market, a portfolio is MV efficient if and only if it is a VaR or ES efficient portfolio. The obtained results generalize relevant conclusions about investment theory, and can better guide investors to make their investment decision.     

STUDY ON THE INTERRELATION OF EFFICIENT PORTFOLIOS AND THEIR FRONTIER UNDER t DISTRIBUTION AND VARIOUS RISK MEASURES

In order to study the effect of different risk measures on the efficient portfolios (frontier) while properly describing the characteristic of return distributions in the stock market, it is assumed in this paper that the joint return distribution of risky assets obeys the multivari-ate t-distribution. Under the mean-risk analysis framework, the interrelationship of efficient portfolios (frontier) based on risk measures such as variance, value at risk (VaR), and expected shortfall (ES) is analyzed and compared. It is proved that, when there is no riskless asset in the market, the efficient frontier under VaR or ES is a subset of the mean-variance (MV) efficient frontier, and the efficient portfolios under VaR or ES are also MV efficient; when there exists a riskless asset in the market, a portfolio is MV efficient if and only if it is a VaR or ES efficient portfolio. The obtained results generalize relevant conclusions about investment theory, and can better guide investors to make their investment decision.     

Robust portfolio choice with CVaR and VaR under distribution and mean return ambiguity

We consider the problem of optimal portfolio choice using the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) and Value-at-Risk (VaR) measures for a market consisting of n risky assets and a riskless asset and where short positions are allowed. When the distribution of returns of risky assets is unknown but the mean return vector and variance/covariance matrix of the risky assets are fixed, we derive the distributionally robust portfolio rules. Then, we address uncertainty (ambiguity) in the mean return vector in addition to distribution ambiguity, and derive the optimal portfolio rules when the uncertainty in the return vector is modeled via an ellipsoidal uncertainty set. In the presence of a riskless asset, the robust CVaR and VaR measures, coupled with a minimum mean return constraint, yield simple, mean-variance efficient optimal portfolio rules. In a market without the riskless asset, we obtain a closed-form portfolio rule that generalizes earlier results, without a minimum mean return restriction.     

不存在无风险资产的投资组合灵敏度分析

本文研究了M－V证券投资组合灵敏度分析方法。考虑了不存在无险资产时证券预睡益率和协方差矩阵存在扰动的情形，给出了最优投资组合有效边缘的漂移方程及组合扩展路径。     

基于几种风险测度的多阶段组合优化研究

基于均值-方差(MV)、VaR(Value at Risk)、CVaR(Conditional VaR)、HMCR(p=1,2,3)(Higher Moment Coherent Risk)几种风险测度进行多阶段组合优化研究。首先从一致性公理和随机占优一致性角度分析几种风险测度的风险识别能力,认为HMCR(p=2,3)的风险识别能力最高,然后给出静态和动态下的风险规避型的规划函数及多阶段CVaR和HMCR模型,最后依据单阶段和多阶段优化模型,对上证50指数成份股进行实证分析。对比单阶段和多阶段下几种风险测度优化组合的累计收益率及几种风险测度之间的关系,结合上证50指数收益率发现,多阶段优化组合要整体优于单阶段优化组合,且HMCR(p=2,3)要优于指数收益率和其它几种风险测度。从投资者投资决策方面来分析,HMCR(p=2,3)型积极投资策略比较适用于股市平稳期、顶峰期和下降期,被动投资策略比较适用于股市上升期。     

基于风险网络结构的资产分配策略研究

股票市场是一个高风险市场,如何在频繁发生的极端波动环境下进行有效的资产分配是当前热点问题。本文首次应用VaR模型构建股市风险网络,并基于风险网络模型进行最优投资组合成分选择,分析不同市场波动行情下最优资产分配权重和股票中心性的时变关系,融合风险网络时变中心性和个股表现提出新的动态资产分配策略(φ投资策略)。结果表明:在股市上涨和震荡期,股票中心性和最优投资组合权重呈正相关关系;股市下跌期,股票中心性和最优投资组合权重呈负相关关系;当φ>0.05时,投资者的合理投资区域向高中心性节点移动,反之。φ投资策略的绩效表现证明了风险网络结构能提高投资组合选择过程。此研究对于优化资产配置、提高投资收益、多元化分散投资风险具有重要意义。     

An optimal investment and consumption model with stochastic returns

We consider a financial market consisting of a risky asset and a riskless one, with a constant or random investment horizon. The interest rate from the riskless asset is constant, but the relative return rate from the risky asset is stochastic with an unknown parameter in its distribution. Following the Bayesian approach, the optimal investment and consumption problem is formulated as a Markov decision process. We incorporate the concept of risk aversion into the model and characterize the optimal strategies for both the power and logarithmic utility functions with a constant relative risk aversion (CRRA). Numerical examples are provided that support the intuition that a higher proportion of investment should be allocated to the risky asset if the mean return rate on the risky asset is higher or the risky asset return rate is less volatile. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Portfolio selection with a minimax measure in safety constraint

In this paper, we attempt to design a portfolio optimization model for investors who desire to minimize the variation around the mean return and at the same time wish to achieve better return than the worst possible return realization at every time point in a single period portfolio investment. The portfolio is to be selected from the risky assets in the equity market. Since the minimax portfolio optimization model provides us with the portfolio that maximizes (minimizes) the worst return (worst loss) realization in the investment horizon period, in order to safeguard the interest of investors, the optimal value of the minimax optimization model is used to design a constraint in the mean-absolute semideviation model. This constraint can be viewed as a safety strategy adopted by an investor. Thus, our proposed bi-objective linear programming model involves mean return as a reward and mean-absolute semideviation as a risk in the objective function and minimax as a safety constraint, which enables a trade off between return and risk with a fixed safety value. The efficient frontier of the model is generated using the augmented -constraint method on the GAMS software. We simultaneously solve the ratio optimization problem which maximizes the ratio of mean return over mean-absolute semideviation with same minimax value in the safety constraint. Subsequently, we choose two portfolios on the above generated efficient frontier such that the risk from one of them is less and the mean return from other portfolio is more than the respective quantities of the optimal portfolio from the ratio optimization model. Extensive computational results and in-sample and out-of-sample analysis are provided to compare the financial performance of the optimal portfolios selected by our proposed model with that of the optimal portfolios from the existing minimax and mean-absolute semideviation portfolio optimization models on real data from S&P CNX Nifty index.     

On minimizing drawdown risks of lifetime investments

Drawdown measures the decline of portfolio value from its historic high-water mark. In this paper, we study a lifetime investment problem aiming at minimizing the risk of drawdown occurrences. Under the Black–Scholes framework, we examine two financial market models: a market with two risky assets, and a market with a risk-free asset and a risky asset. Closed-form optimal trading strategies are derived under both models by utilizing a decomposition technique on the associated Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) equation. We show that it is optimal to minimize the portfolio variance when the fund value is at its historic high-water mark. Moreover, when the fund value drops, the proportion of wealth invested in the asset with a higher instantaneous rate of return should be increased. We find that the instantaneous return rate of the minimum lifetime drawdown probability (MLDP) portfolio is never less than the return rate of the minimum variance (MV) portfolio. This supports the practical use of drawdown-based performance measures in which the role of volatility is replaced by drawdown.     

损失厌恶偏好与资产组合选择研究

在不确定性条件下,期望的不可计算性、行动结果比较的局限性以及投资个体选择的非理性使理性假定的选择理论脱离现实,因此重新探讨决策选择准则是必要的.以行为金融理论中不确定性状态下的有限理性与满意准则为依据,引入与满意准则一致且体现损失厌恶偏好的VaR作为风险指标,构建行为资产组合模型,在一种简单新颖的M-V模型的矩阵解法基础上,探寻了正态与部分非正态性假设下VaR-BPT模型的显性最优解或有效前沿,解决了现实中最优投资组合选择的可操作性难题,并在中国股票市场验证了正态性转换方法是处理非正态分布下资产组合选择问题的一种优秀方法.     

Integrated portfolio management with options

In this paper we examine the problem of managing portfolios consisting of both, stocks and options. For the simultaneous optimization of stock and option positions we base our analysis on the generally accepted mean–variance framework. First, we analyze the effects of options on the mean–variance efficient frontier if they are considered as separate investment alternatives. Due to the resulting asymmetric portfolio return distribution mean–variance analysis will be not sufficient to identify optimal optioned portfolios. Additional investor preferences which are expressed in terms of shortfall constraints allow a more detailed portfolio specification. Under a mean–variance and shortfall preference structure we then derive optioned portfolios with a maximum expected return. To circumvent the technical optimization problems arising from stochastic constraints we use an approximation of the return distribution and develop economically meaningful conditions under which the complex optimization problem can be transformed into a linear problem being comparably easy to solve. Empirical results based on both, empirical market data and Monte Carlo simulations, illustrate the portfolio optimization procedure with options.     

Portfolios with fuzzy returns: Selection strategies based on semi-infinite programming

This paper provides new models for portfolio selection in which the returns on securities are considered fuzzy numbers rather than random variables. The investor's problem is to find the portfolio that minimizes the risk of achieving a return that is not less than the return of a riskless asset. The corresponding optimal portfolio is derived using semi-infinite programming in a soft framework. The return on each asset and their membership functions are described using historical data. The investment risk is approximated by mean intervals which evaluate the downside risk for a given fuzzy portfolio. This approach is illustrated with a numerical example.     

An exact solution to a robust portfolio choice problem with multiple risk measures under ambiguous distribution

This paper proposes a unified framework to solve distributionally robust mean-risk optimization problem that simultaneously uses variance, value-at-risk (VaR) and conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) as a triple-risk measure. It provides investors with more flexibility to find portfolios in the sense that it allows investors to optimize a return-risk profile in the presence of estimation error. We derive a closed-form expression for the optimal portfolio strategy to the robust mean-multiple risk portfolio selection model under distribution and mean return ambiguity (RMP). Specially, the robust mean-variance, robust maximum return, robust minimum VaR and robust minimum CVaR efficient portfolios are all special instances of RMP portfolios. We analytically and numerically show that the resulting portfolio weight converges to the minimum variance portfolio when the level of ambiguity aversion is in a high value. Using numerical experiment with simulated data, we demonstrate that our robust portfolios under ambiguity are more stable over time than the non-robust portfolios.     

Determination of the portfolio selection for a property-liability insurance company

This paper presents an analysis of a portfolio model which can be used to assist a property-liability insurance company in determining the optimal composition of the insurance and investment portfolios. By introducing insurer's threshold risk and relaxing some non-realistic assumptions made in traditional chance constraint insurance and investment portfolio models, we propose a method for an insurer to maximize his return threshold for a given threshold risk level. This proposed model can be used to optimize the composition of underwriting and investment portfolios regarding the insurer's threshold risk level, as well as to generate the efficient frontier by adjusting insurer's threshold risk levels. A numerical example is given based on the industry's aggregated data for a sixteen year period.     

基于VaR的权变投资组合保险策略及实证分析

传统的投资组合保险策略在投资期内全程进行保险操作,在熊市期间确能起到保险作用,但在牛市期间又会夹失部分收益。应用综合了VaR技术和滤嘴法则的VaR套补的权变投资组合保险策略,则能弥补上述缺憾,为保险资金或保本型基金投资股市提供了有效的投资手段。     

基于VaR的权变投资组合保险策略及在中国股市中的实证研究

传统的投资组合保险策略在投资期内全程进行保险操作,在熊市期间确能起到保险作用,但在牛市期间又会丧失部分收益.应用滤嘴法则设计了基于V aR的权变型投资组合保险策略,实证结果表明,该策略很好地起到了投资与保险的功能,能有效地进行市场风险的实时监控,为保险资金或保本型基金投资股市提供了有效的手段.     

Asset pricing and portfolio selection based on the multivariate extended skew-Student-<Emphasis Type="Italic">t</Emphasis> distribution

The returns on most financial assets exhibit kurtosis and many also have probability distributions that possess skewness as well. In this paper a general multivariate model for the probability distribution of assets returns, which incorporates both kurtosis and skewness, is described. It is based on the multivariate extended skew-Student-t distribution. Salient features of the distribution are described and these are applied to the task of asset pricing. The paper shows that the market model is non-linear in general and that the sensitivity of asset returns to return on the market portfolio is not the same as the conventional beta, although this measure does arise in special cases. It is shown that the variance of asset returns is time varying and depends on the squared deviation of market portfolio return from its location parameter. The first order conditions for portfolio selection are described. Expected utility maximisers will select portfolios from an efficient surface, which is an analogue of the familiar mean-variance frontier, and which may be implemented using quadratic programming.     

沪深股市的相关结构分析与投资组合风险度量——基于ARFIMA-GARCH-Copula模型

金融资产收益率不仅具有尖峰厚尾性、异方差性,还具有长记忆性。基于此,本文建立ARFIMA-GARCH-Copula模型来研究沪深股市的相关结构和等权重投资组合风险值VaR,利用上证指数和深成指数收益率的组合来进行实证研究。首先采用经典R/S分析法检验各个资产收益率的长记忆性,经过分数阶差分后选用GARCH模型建模得到边缘分布。然后选择Copula函数来刻画两资产之间的相关结构,建立联合分布模型。进而采用Monte Carlo方法模拟产生各资产的收益率序列,计算出投资组合的风险值VaR。实证研究表明:沪深股市具有长记忆性,且两者具有对称的尾部相关性;Kupiec检验说明ARFIMA-GARCH-Copula模型较之于GARCH-Copula模型能更准确地度量投资组合风险。     

Multi‐period mean variance portfolio selection under incomplete information

This paper solves an optimal portfolio selection problem in the discrete‐time setting where the states of the financial market cannot be completely observed, which breaks the common assumption that the states of the financial market are fully observable. The dynamics of the unobservable market state is formulated by a hidden Markov chain, and the return of the risky asset is modulated by the unobservable market state. Based on the observed information up to the decision moment, an investor wants to find the optimal multi‐period investment strategy to maximize the mean‐variance utility of the terminal wealth. By adopting a sufficient statistic, the portfolio optimization problem with incompletely observable information is converted into the one with completely observable information. The optimal investment strategy is derived by using the dynamic programming approach and the embedding technique, and the efficient frontier is also presented. Compared with the case when the market state can be completely observed, we find that the unobservable market state does decrease the investment value on the risky asset in average. Finally, numerical results illustrate the impact of the unobservable market state on the efficient frontier, the optimal investment strategy and the Sharpe ratio. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于VaR和ES调整的Sharpe比率及在基金评价中的实证研究

传统Sharpe比率将投资收益的标准差作为风险的度量,而实证研究中更关注基金的损失风险而非全部风险,这是收益标准差所无法准确刻画的。针对传统Sharpe比率的这一缺点,本文考虑了用于度量下方风险的指标风险价值VaR(Value at Risk)和预期不足ES(Expected Shortfall)来替代投资收益的标准差,从而对传统Sharpe比率进行了调整。这里对VaR和ES进行计算时,运用了经验非参数估计和非参数平滑核估计两种方法。此外,本文还考虑了基金收益随时间波动的动态性,用广义自回归异方差GARCH模型对收益波动进行模拟,考察动态的VaR和ES,在实践中以动态的VaR和ES评价风险收益更加灵活。在实证研究中,本文用传统的Sharpe比率、基于VaR和ES的Sharpe比率以及基于条件VaR和条件ES的条件Sharpe比率对国内证券市场上所有26只封闭式基金在2005-2009年间的业绩进行了实证分析,分析了基金在不同指标下所体现的风险控制能力和收益水平的差别,并基于不同指标对所有基金进行了排名。此外,本文还运用协整检验考察基金收益率与市场基准指数是否存在联动关系,检验证明两者并不存在长期的均衡关系。