真实利率波动对长期资产配置的影响(英)

对于单期的投资者而言,无违约风险的固定收益证券被视为无风险资产.这是因为固定收益证券的收益率在投资的初期就能确定.然而在考虑长期的投资时,投资者可以调整资产配置,固定收益证券也将面临再投资的利率波动风险,因此不能再被视为无风险资产.本文在一类特殊的``习惯形成"效用函数的框架下讨论长期资产配置.在一系列为简化问题而作的假设之下,本文推导出了真实利率波动对风险资产配置权重的影响,并且为计算实际长期资产配置的最优比例提供了理论依据和算法.     

关于长期债券是长期投者无风险资产的研究

假设短期利率服从C IR模型,通过研究投资者如何选择长期债券和短期债券进行资产配置,发现保守的长期投资者在长期债券上投资的比例更大;投资者的投资期限越长,投资的长期债券越多;在进行债券投资时不存在市场时机的选择。对于长期投资者而言,可以为其提供长期稳定收益率的长期债券才是无风险的。     

关于无风险资产不存在时资产组合选择的研究

以往关于资产组合选择的研究大多假设市场上存在无风险资产,但无风险资产实际上是不存在的.当不存在无风险资产时,假设投资者的效用定义在消费上,消费一直是投资者财富的一个固定比例,投资者的最优资产组合由两部分组成:短视的资产组合和对冲组合.假设只有股票和债券两种风险资产,当股票和债券的风险具有负的相关性时,投资者现在会消费更多,同时也会在股票上投资更多;两者正相关时,投资者无法降低风险,会减持股票并降低当前消费;两者不相关时,投资者持有的股票权重和存在无风险资产时一样.最后,还推导出了多种资产情况下最优消费和资产组合的解析表达式.     

随机利率下的PPP项目实物期权评价研究

PPP项目通常实施周期长,风险突出。传统的实物期权评价方法考虑了未来的不确定性和管理者柔性的价值,但是一般假设无风险利率是固定的,不符合利率长期内波动的特点,会造成投资者决策失误。本文考虑了未来无风险利率波动条件下,PPP项目中实物期权的价值。首先分析了PPP项目中通常存在的期权形式,其次研究了无风险利率三角逆变函数以及在此基础上得出模拟实物期权模型,并用案例对比分析固定利率和随机利率下的期权价值。结果显示,随机利率比固定利率下的期权价值更高,研究结论可以为PPP项目的投资者进行决策提供重要依据。     

基于Heston随机波动率模型和风险偏好视角的资产负债管理

本文研究基于Heston随机波动率模型的资产负债管理问题。假设金融市场由一个无风险资产和一个风险资产构成,投资者的目标是最大化其终端财富的期望效用。应用随机控制方法,得到了该问题最优资产配置策略的解析表达式和相应值函数的解析解,通过数值算例分析了Heston模型主要参数以及债务对最优资产配置策略的影响。结果表明:配置到风险资产的比例对Heston模型中的参数非常敏感;为了对冲债务风险,负债的引入使得配置到风险资产的比例比无负债情形下的高;在风险厌恶系数变大时,无论投资者是否有负债,其投资到风险资产的比例则越来越低。     

基于长短记忆神经网络预测的大类资产因子配置研究

大类资产配置策略为资金相对庞大的机构投资者提供了一个有效获取稳健收益的手段,通过因子收益分布及相关性的预测能更好地进行大类资产配置.将大类资产因子配置的思想与机器学习算法预测有机结合,首先筛选宏观因子及风格因子,利用长短记忆神经网络(LSTM)方法预测组合收益,得到最优因子组合;然后结合最优因子组合中蕴含的信息,修正对资产预期收益率的估计并提出了大类资产的权重配置方案.通过在全球18种大类资产上进行的算例分析表明,采用本文模型得到的配置策略相较于其它模型有更高的收益风险比、较低的年化波动以及较小的最大回撤.研究结论可为机构投资者的大类资产配置提供理论借鉴.     

双侧风险度量方法及其在投资组合优化模型中的应用

现有的资产风险度量方法不能合理的反映收益的向上波动给投资者带来的风险感受,针对这一不足,本文提出了一种新的风险度量方法,这一方法综合考虑了投资者对于损失的规避和对超额收益的偏好,能够更为真实的反映投资者对于资产收益双侧波动的不同风险感受.同时本文结合新的风险度量方法给出了投资组合优化模型,并对模型的解从不同角度进行了分析.研究结果表明,新的风险度量方法可以为投资者提供更有效的投资决策依据,并且投资者的风险态度对于投资组合有效前沿和最优投资组合都有显著的影响.     

基于投资者心理的证券投资组合熵决策及应用研究

证券收益率是投资者在投资决策时考虑的重要指标.针对投资者因证券收益率的变化引起的投资心理变化,提出一种基于累积前景理论和熵理论的投资风险决策方法.首先把证券的历史收益率划分为若干个状态区间,将某证券落在某状态区间定义为该证券的状态;然后计算各证券状态的概率及熵值;再利用累积前景理论,将无风险利率作为投资者的目标参照点,计算各证券所有状态相对于参照点的"损益值",得出各证券所有状态的价值,并将各证券所有状态发生的概率转化为投资者的心理概率,计算出各证券所有状态下的前景值,进而得出各证券的累积前景值;最后建立一种度量各证券投资风险的决策模型来确定最优组合.选择沪市证券市场进行实证研究,验证了方法的可行性及有效性.     

跳扩散环境下考虑红利支付的动态资产配置问题研究

研究资产价格带跳环境下红利支付对投资者资产配置的影响,投资者将其财富在风险资产和无风险资产中进行分配,在终端财富预期效用最大化标准下,利用动态规划原理建立的HJB方程推导最优配置策略,并得到最优动态资产配置策略的近似解.最后通过数值模拟,分析了跳和红利支付对投资者最优配置策略的影响.结果表明在跳发生的情况下,不管跳的大小和方向如何,投资者都会减少其在风险资产中的配置头寸,同时带有红利支付的资产比不带红利支付的资产对投资者更具吸引力.     

CEV模型下家庭最优投资决策问题

考虑固定收入下具有随机支出风险的家庭最优投资组合决策问题.在假设投资者拥有工资收入的同时将财富投资到一种风险资产和一种无风险资产,其中风险资产的价格服从CEV模型,无风险利率采用Vasicek随机利率模型.当支出过程是随机的且服从跳-扩散风险模型时,运用动态规划的思想建立了使家庭终端财富效用最大化的HJB方程,采用Legendre-对偶变换进行求解,得到最优策略的显示解,并通过敏感性分析进行验证表明,家庭投资需求是弹性方差系数的减函数,解释了家庭流动性财富的增加对最优投资比例呈现边际效用递减趋势.     

保险公司实业项目投资策略研究

考虑保险公司实业项目投资问题. 假定1)保险公司可以选择在某一时刻投资一实业项目(Real investment), 该项投资可以为保险公司带来稳定的资金收入而不影响其风险;2)保险公司可以将盈余资金投资于证券市场, 该市场包含一风险资产.目标是通过最小化破产概率来确定保险公司实业项目投资时间和风险资产的投资金额.运用混合随机控制-最优停时方法,得到值函数的半显式解, 进而得到保险公司的最佳投资策略: 以固定金额投资证券市场; 当保险公司盈余高于一定额度(称为投资门槛)时进行项目投资, 并降低风险资产投资金额.最后采用数值算例分析了不同市场环境下投资门槛与投资金额, 投资收益率之间的关系. 结果表明:1)项目投资所需金额越少、收益率越高, 则项目投资的门槛越低;2)市场环境较好时(牛市)项目的投资门槛提高, 保险公司应较多的投资于证券市场; 反之, 当市场环境较差时(熊市)投资门槛降低,保险公司倾向于实业项目投资.     

Risk-Sensitive Dynamic Asset Management

This paper develops a continuous time portfolio optimization model where the mean returns of individual securities or asset categories are explicitly affected by underlying economic factors such as dividend yields, a firm's return on equity, interest rates, and unemployment rates. In particular, the factors are Gaussian processes, and the drift coefficients for the securities are affine functions of these factors. We employ methods of risk-sensitive control theory, thereby using an infinite horizon objective that is natural and features the long run expected growth rate, the asymptotic variance, and a single risk-aversion parameter. Even with constraints on the admissible trading strategies, it is shown that the optimal trading strategy has a simple characterization in terms of the factor levels. For particular factor levels, the optimal trading positions can be obtained as the solution of a quadratic program. The optimal objective value, as a function of the risk-aversion parameter, is shown to be the solution of a partial differential equation. A simple asset allocation example, featuring a Vasicek-type interest rate which affects a stock index and also serves as a second investment opportunity, provides some additional insight about the risk-sensitive criterion in the context of dynamic asset management. Accepted 10 December 1997     

Securitization of catastrophe mortality risks

Securitization with payments linked to explicit mortality events provides a new investment opportunity to investors and financial institutions. Moreover, mortality-linked securities provide an alternative risk management tool for insurers. As a step toward understanding these securities, we develop an asset pricing model for mortality-based securities in an incomplete market framework with jump processes. Our model nicely explains opposite market outcomes of two existing pure mortality securities.     

Decision model and analysis for investment interest expense deduction and allocation

Investment income tax planning requires informed, strategic choices. One must determine the amount of qualified dividends and net long-term capital gain to be included in investment income (against which investment interest expense can be deducted). This choice also determines the residual qualified dividends and net long-term capital gain which enjoy a reduced tax rate. Another important decision is whether all or some of this interest expense should be deducted in the current year or carried forward. This paper puts forward a new approach to formulate these questions as a generalized resource allocation problem which permits analysis of the interdependence between, and the tax consequences of, the above decisions. The commonly used approach – deducting investment interest expense sooner rather than later – we consider myopic since the benefit of deferring some of the deduction is not leveraged. Presented here is a tax planning guideline (a necessary and sufficient condition for optimality) to realize a more forward-looking strategy. We also show that, for certain income structures, the tax savings by deducting a one-dollar investment interest expense may be more than the tax rate on the dollar of investment income that is offset.     

A stochastic programming model for funding single premium deferred annuities

Single Premium Deferred Annuities (SPDAs) are investment vehicles, offered to investors by insurance companies as a means of providing income past their retirement age. They are mirror images of insurance policies. However, the propensity of individuals to shift part, or all, of their investment into different annuities creates substantial uncertainties for the insurance company. In this paper we develop amultiperiod, dynamic stochastic program that deals with the problem of funding SPDA liabilities. The model recognizes explicitly the uncertainties inherent in this problem due to both interest rate volatility and the behavior of individual investors. Empirical results are presented with the use of the model for the funding of an SPDA liability stream using government bonds, mortgage-backed securities and derivative products. Research partially supported by NSF grants CCR-9104042 and SES-91-00216, and AFOSR grant 91-0168. Computing resources were made available by AHPCRC at the University of Minnesota, by NPAC at Syracuse University, New York, and by the GRASP Laboratory at Computer Science Department at University of Pennsylvania.     

长期投资者的战略资产配置选择

在股票期望收益率服从一个均值回复过程的假设下,推导出具有幂效用函数的投资者的资产配置函数,着重分析了投资期限对投资者资产配置结果的影响,发现长期投资者比短期投资者在股票上配置更大的资产比例.虽然不同投资期限的投资者具有相同的短视配置,但是战略配置随着投资期限的增大而增大.     

含不动产项目的保险公司再保险-投资策略

站在保险公司管理者的角度, 考虑存在不动产项目投资机会时保险公司的再保险--投资策略问题. 假定保险公司可以投资于不动产项目、风险证券和无风险证券, 并通过比例再保险控制风险, 目标是最小化保险公司破产概率并求得相应最佳策略, 包括: 不动产项目投资时机、 再保险比例以及投资于风险证券的金额. 运用混合随机控制-最优停时方法, 得到最优值函数及最佳策略的显式解. 结果表明, 当且仅当其盈余资金多于某一水平(称为投资阈值)时保险公司投资于不动产项目. 进一步的数值算例分析表明: (a)~不动产项目投资的阈值主要受项目收益率影响而与投资金额无明显关系, 收益率越高则投资阈值越低; (b)~市场环境较好(牛市)时项目的投资阈值降低; 反之, 当市场环境较差(熊市)时投资阈值提高.     

Optimal portfolio‐consumption choice under stochastic inflation with nominal and indexed bonds

This research solves the intertemporal portfolio choice problems with and without interim consumption under stochastic inflation. We assume a one‐factor nominal interest rate and a one‐factor expected inflation rate, implying a two‐factor real interest rate in the economy. In contrast to other related research which adopts the one‐factor real interest rate model, the inflation‐indexed bond is not a redundant asset class even in a complete market. The infinitely risk‐averse investor would prefer to invest all her wealth in inflation‐indexed bonds maturing at the investment horizon. We also show that, with the two‐factor real interest rate model, the consumption‐wealth ratio is not determined by the real interest rate alone. The investor's consumption–wealth ratio is also affected by the nominal interest rate and expected inflation rate levels. The capital market is calibrated to U.S. stocks, bonds, and inflation data. The optimal weights show that aggressive investors hold more nominal bonds in order to earn the inflation risk premiums, while conservative investors concentrate on indexed bonds to hedge against the inflation risk. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.