Static hedging of multivariate derivatives by simulation

We propose an approximate static hedging procedure for multivariate derivatives. The hedging portfolio is composed of statically held simple univariate options, optimally weighted minimizing the variance of the difference between the target claim and the approximate replicating portfolio. The method uses simulated paths to estimate the weights of the hedging portfolio and is related to Monte Carlo control variates techniques. We report numerical results showing the performance of this static hedging procedure on bivariate options on the maximum of two assets and on 2- and 7-dimensional portfolio options. It is shown that, in the presence of transaction costs, Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall of the dynamically hedged positions can be higher than the ones obtained by a static hedge.     

风险限额、交易费用与相依结构:对证券投资组合优化影响的实证研究

本文提出了一个考虑交易费用,允许以无风险利率自由借贷,追求期末财富最大化的投资组合选择优化模型。进一步,通过实证分析,研究了风险(VaR)限额约束、交易费率变动,以及投资组合间相依结构对证券组合优化配置的影响。     

Building an Optimal Portfolio in Discrete Time in the Presence of Transaction Costs

Abstract

Portfolio theory covers different approaches to the construction of a portfolio offering maximum expected returns for a given level of risk tolerance where the goal is to find the optimal investment rule. Each investor has a certain utility for money which is reflected by the choice of a utility function. In this article, a risk averse power utility function is studied in discrete time for a large class of underlying probability distribution of the returns of the asset prices. Each investor chooses, at the beginning of an investment period, the feasible portfolio allocation which maximizes the expected value of the utility function for terminal wealth. Effects of both large and small proportional transaction costs on the choice of an optimal portfolio are taken into account. The transaction regions are approximated by using asymptotic methods when the proportional transaction costs are small and by using expansions about critical points for large transaction costs.     

Mean-variance portfolio rebalancing with transaction costs and funding changes

Investment portfolios should be rebalanced to take account of changing market conditions and changes in funding. Standard mean-variance (MV) portfolio selection methods are not appropriate for portfolio rebalancing, as the initial portfolio, change in funding and transaction costs are not considered. A quadratic mixed integer programming portfolio rebalancing model, which takes account of these factors is developed in this paper. The transaction costs in this portfolio rebalancing model are composed of fixed charges and variable costs, including the market impact costs associated with large market trades of individual securities, where these variable transaction costs are assumed to be non-linear functions of traded value. The use of this model is demonstrated and it is shown that when initial portfolio, funding changes and transaction costs are taken into account in portfolio construction and rebalancing, MV efficient portfolios that include risk-free lending do not have the structure expected from portfolio theory.     

Portfolio optimization under D.C. transaction costs and minimal transaction unit constraints

This paper addresses itself to a portfolio optimization problem under nonconvex transaction costs and minimal transaction unit constraints. Associated with portfolio construction is a fee for purchasing assets. Unit transaction fee is larger when the amount of transaction is smaller. Hence the transaction cost is usually a concave function up to certain point. When the amount of transaction increases, the unit price of assets increases due to illiquidity/market impact effects. Hence the transaction cost becomes convex beyond certain bound. Therefore, the net expected return becomes a general d.c. function (difference of two convex functions). We will propose a branch-and-bound algorithm for the resulting d.c. maximization problem subject to a constraint on the level of risk measured in terms of the absolute deviation of the rate of return of a portfolio. Also, we will show that the minimal transaction unit constraints can be incorporated without excessively increasing the amount of computation.     

Sudden changes in variance and time varying hedge ratios

This paper analyzes the influence of sudden changes in the unconditional volatility on the estimation and forecast of volatility and its impact on futures hedging strategies. We employ several multivariate GARCH models to estimate the optimal hedge ratios for the Spanish stock market including in each one some well-known patterns that may affect volatility forecasts (asymmetry and sudden changes). The main empirical results show that more complex models including sudden changes in volatility outperform the simpler models in hedging effectiveness both with in-sample and out-of-sample analysis. However, the evidence is stronger when the loss distribution tail is used as a measure for the effectiveness (Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES)) suggesting that traditional measures based on the variance of the hedged portfolio should be used with caution.     

Credit portfolio risk and asset price cycles

It is a stylized fact that credit risk is high at the same time when asset values are depressed. However, most of the standard credit risk models ignore this kind of correlation, leading to underestimation of risk measures of portfolio credit risk such as Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall. In our paper we make an attempt to quantify the underestimation of these risk measures when the dependence between credit risk and asset values is ignored and show that credit risk is underestimated by a significant margin.      

具有不确定交易价格的指数跟踪资产组合再平衡问题

本文考虑具有某种不确定性的交易费用及预算约束的指数跟踪资产组合的再平衡问题。在已有的模型中,预算约束中使用的交易价格通常是一个确定值。而在再平衡过程中,股票的实际交易价格是不确定的。本文使用有限状态的离散时间马尔柯夫链模型处理交易价格的不确定性,并基于情景分析方法建立了具有不确定预算关系式的再平衡模型,然后使用股票市场的实际样本数据进行了数值实验,模拟结果说明本文的模型是可行的。     

求解带有交易费的CVaR投资组合模型的L-S算法

本文假设投资者是风险厌恶型,用CVaR作为测量投资组合风险的方法.在预算约束的条件下,以最小化CVaR为目标函数,建立了带有交易费用的投资组合模型.将模型转化为两阶段补偿随机优化模型,构造了求解模型的随机L-S算法.为了验证算法的有效性,用中国证券市场中的股票进行数值试验,得到了最优投资组合、VaR和CVaR的值.而且对比分析了有交易费和没有交易费的最优投资组合的不同,给出了相应的有效前沿.     

α-混合序列下期望损失ES的两步核估计

期望损失(Expected Shortfall,ES)是当今最流行的金融资产风险管理的工具之一,是一个理想的一致性风险度量.本文在α-混合序列具有幂衰减混合系数条件下,用两步核估计估算风险度量ES的值,第一步是在险价值(Value at Risk,VaR)的核估计,第二步是ES的核估计.得到ES的核估计量的Bahadur表示,以及均方误差和渐近正态性的收敛速度.     

基于排序预测的带交易费用在线投资组合策略

在线投资组合决策过程中频繁调整资产头寸会产生较多的交易费用。本文提出了一个综合考虑预期收益和交易费用的在线投资组合策略。通过预测资产的排序计算组合的预期收益,利用相对熵距离衡量交易费用,构造了一个极大化预期收益和极小化交易费用的优化模型,从而得到了一个在线投资组合更新策略。然后,从理论上证明了该策略具有BH泛证券性,即该策略与离线的最优购买并持有策略具有相同的渐近平均指数收益率。最后,采用中美股票市场实际数据,对该策略进行了数值分析。结果表明,该策略的表现优于已有的在线投资组合策略,且对模型的参数不敏感。     

Optimal hedging strategies for multi-period guarantees in the presence of transaction costs: A stochastic programming approach

Multi-period guarantees are often embedded in life insurance contracts. In this paper we consider the problem of hedging these multi-period guarantees in the presence of transaction costs. We derive the hedging strategies for the cheapest hedge portfolio for a multi-period guarantee that with certainty makes the insurance company able to meet the obligations from the insurance policies it has issued. We find that by imposing transaction costs, the insurance company reduces the rebalancing of the hedge portfolio. The cost of establishing the hedge portfolio also increases as the transaction cost increases. For the multi-period guarantee there is a rather large rebalancing of the hedge portfolio as we go from one period to the next. By introducing transaction costs we find the size of this rebalancing to be reduced. Transaction costs may therefore be one possible explanation for why we do not see the insurance companies performing a large rebalancing of their investment portfolio at the end of each year.     

Asset allocation with distorted beliefs and transaction costs

In this paper we study the problem of the optimal portfolio selection with transaction costs for a decision-maker who is faced with Knightian uncertainty. The decision-maker’s portfolio consists of one risky and one risk-free asset, and we assume that the transaction costs are proportional to the traded volume of the risky asset. The attitude to uncertainty is modeled by the Choquet expected utility. We derive optimal strategies and bounds of the no-transaction region for both optimistic and pessimistic decision-makers. The no-transaction region of a pessimistic investor is narrower and its bounds lie closer to the origin than that of an optimistic trader. Moreover, under the Choquet expected utility the structure of the no-transaction region is not necessarily a closed interval as it is under the standard expected utility model.     

基于扭曲混合Copula和ARMA-GARCH-t模型的投资组合风险分析——以上证综指、中证综合债和上证基金为例

利用扭曲混合Copula和ARMA-GARCH-t模型,对包含2015年股灾和2016年熔断期间的上证综指、中证综合债和上证基金的投资组合风险相关性进行建模分析。研究表明:扭曲混合Copula模型较混合Copula模型能更好地拟合各资产日收益率间的相关结构,尤其是"厚尾"特性。并运用蒙特卡罗模拟法计算各资产的风险价值、预期损失和中位数损失并讨论其差异性,以期为关注风险管理的人们提供更多借鉴。     

Maximizing the Growth Rate of a Portfolio with Fixed and Proportional Transaction Costs

In this paper a portfolio optimization problem with transaction costs is studied. Transactions of assets are formulated as an impulsive control, which does not allow continuous transactions. The introduction of fixed rate costs has the effect of preventing continuous transactions. The objective of this paper is studying the problem of maximizing the growth rate of expected log utility. A quasi-variational inequality (QVI) of "ergodic type" is derived from the optimization problem. To solve the inequality, we use a perturbation method, where we obtain a necessary estimate of solutions of non-ergodic type QVIs by using a stochastic representation of the solutions.     

Drawdown: from practice to theory and back again

Maximum drawdown, the largest cumulative loss from peak to trough, is one of the most widely used indicators of risk in the fund management industry, but one of the least developed in the context of measures of risk. We formalize drawdown risk as Conditional Expected Drawdown (CED), which is the tail mean of maximum drawdown distributions. We show that CED is a degree one positive homogenous risk measure, so that it can be linearly attributed to factors; and convex, so that it can be used in quantitative optimization. We empirically explore the differences in risk attributions based on CED, Expected Shortfall (ES) and volatility. An important feature of CED is its sensitivity to serial correlation. In an empirical study that fits AR(1) models to US Equity and US Bonds, we find substantially higher correlation between the autoregressive parameter and CED than with ES or with volatility.     

Optimal impulse control of a portfolio with a fixed transaction cost

The aim of this work is to investigate a portfolio optimization problem in presence of fixed transaction costs. We consider an economy with two assets: one risky, modeled by a geometric Brownian motion, and one risk-free which grows at a certain fixed rate. The agent is fully described by his/her utility function and the objective is to maximize the expected utility from the liquidation of wealth at a terminal date. We deal with different forms of utility functions (power, logarithmic and exponential utility), describing in each case how the fixed transaction costs influence the agent’s behavior. We show when it is optimal to recalibrate his/her portfolio and which are the best adjusted portfolios. We also analyze how the optimal strategy is influenced by the risk-aversion, as well as other model parameters.     

Evaluating Currency Risk in Emerging Markets

We present a systematic approach to the problem of evaluating currency risk. The approach involves a test for stationarity, and a method of estimating Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) from dependent heavy-tailed data. Various estimation methods are compared and the accuracy of the approach is discussed. An application of the technique to the Mexican peso/US dollar exchange rate reveals the level of currency risk foreign investors face in Mexico.      

A stochastic programming model using an endogenously determined worst case risk measure for dynamic asset allocation

We present a new approach to asset allocation with transaction costs. A multiperiod stochastic linear programming model is developed where the risk is based on the worst case payoff that is endogenously determined by the model that balances expected return and risk. Utilizing portfolio protection and dynamic hedging, an investment portfolio similar to an option-like payoff structure on the initial investment portfolio is characterized. The relative changes in the expected terminal wealth, worst case payoff, and risk aversion, are studied theoretically and illustrated using a numerical example. This model dominates a static mean-variance model when the optimal portfolios are evaluated by the Sharpe ratio. Received: August 15, 1999 / Accepted: October 1, 2000?Published online December 15, 2000     

Dynamic utility maximization with bounded shortfall risks

We address the dynamic portfolio optimization problem where the expected utility from terminal wealth has to be maximized. The special feature of this paper is an additional constraint on the portfolio strategy modeling bounded shortfall risks. We consider the risk, that the terminal wealth of the portfolio falls short of a certain benchmark. This benchmark is chosen to be proportional to the stock price. The risk is measured by the Expected Utility Loss. Using a continuous-time model of a complete financial market and applying martingale methods, analytic expressions for the optimal terminal wealth and the optimal portfolio strategies are given. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)