We propose an extension of the CPPI method, which is based on conditional floors. In this framework, we examine in particular the margin based strategies. This method allows to keep part of the past gains and to protect the portfolio value against future high drawdowns of the financial market. However, as for the standard CPPI method, the investor can benefit from potential market rises. To con...

Related to the current discussion of value-at-risk-based capital allocation and performance management (RAPM) for managing bank capital, a risk theoretical RAPM-approach for propertylliability-insurance companies is presented. The paper discusses several central issues of a RAPM-approach: Virtual risk adjusted capital (VRAC) on the company level, return on risk adjusted capital (RORAC), risk ba...

The concept of coherent risk measure was introduced in Artzner et al. (1999). They listed some properties, called axioms of ‘coherence’, that any good risk measure should possess, and studied the (non-)coherence of widely-used risk measure such as Value-atRisk (VaR) and expected shortfall (also known as tail conditional expectation or tail VaR). Kusuoka (2001) introduced two additional axioms c...

In this paper we examine the usefulness of multivariate semi-parametric GARCH models for portfolio selection under a Value-at-Risk (VaR) constraint. First, we specify and estimate several alternative multivariate GARCH models for daily returns on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes. Examining the within sample VaRs of a set of given portfolios shows that the semi-parametric model performs uniformly ...

Why does the VIX and market return explain changes in credit spreads? Existing literature suggests these factors proxy for macroeconomic risk. In this paper, we investigate an alternative hypothesis that the VIX in its role as a fear index impacts intermediary and arbitrageur capital, impacting spreads and resulting in decreased market integration across credit and equity markets. We document t...

The September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers was the 9/11 on Wall Street, and many articles had been written on the changes in the global risk landscape that followed. However, there is scarcity of rigorous studies using empirical data and advanced econometric methods to verify such a change and the nature of such a change. In this paper, we provide rigorous analyses of statistically signific...

I n a s tudy of bioelectric potent ia ls in Valonia macrophysa, the effects produced b y KC1 are especially interesting in view of the remarkable degree to which this salt is accumula ted in the cell sap. 1 The present repor t deals wi th changes in the P.D. across the p ro top lasm when a cell is t ransferred f rom natura l sea water to certain artificial solutions resembling sea water , in wh...

The variance of a portfolio can be forecasted using a single index model or the covariance matrix of the portfolio. Using univariate and multivariate conditional volatility models, this paper evaluates the performance of the single index and portfolio models in forecasting Value-at-Risk (VaR) thresholds of a portfolio. The LR tests of unconditional coverage, independence and conditional coverag...

We study the discrete optimization problem under the distributionally robustframework. We optimize the Entropic Value-at-Risk, which is a coherentrisk measure and is also known as Bernstein approximation for the chanceconstraint. We propose an efficient approximation algorithm to resolve theproblem via solving a sequence of nominal problems. The computationalresults show...