The impact of volatility targeting

CR Harvey, E Hoyle, R Korgaonkar… - Available at SSRN …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
Recent studies show that volatility-managed equity portfolios realize higher Sharpe ratios
than portfolios with a constant notional exposure. We show that this result only holds for “risk …

Conditional volatility targeting

D Bongaerts, X Kang, M van Dijk - Financial Analysts Journal, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In analyzing the performance of volatility-targeting strategies, we found that conventional
volatility targeting fails to consistently improve performance in global equity markets and can …

[PDF][PDF] Some properties of the sample median of an in-fill sequence of events with an application to high frequency financial econometrics

N Shephard - 2022 - scholar.harvard.edu
Using an in-fill argument, the properties of the sample median of a sequence of events are
established both for the case of a fixed period of time and for a period which shrinks as the …

Tail risk targeting: Target var and cvar strategies

L Rickenberg - Available at SSRN 3444999, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We present dynamic trading strategies that target a predefined level of risk measured by
volatility, Value-at-Risk (VaR) or Conditional-Value-at-Risk (CVaR). Recent studies have …

Improving Retirement Coverage Durability with Target Volatility Strategy for Changing Interest Rate Environment

Z Bai, V Steblovskaya… - Asia‐Pacific Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by the recent market turbulence triggered by the COVID‐19 pandemic and the
changing interest rate environment, we propose an improved investment strategy for …

Research on the effectiveness of the volatility–tail risk-managed portfolios in China's market

Z Guo, Y Li, G Jia - Empirical Economics, 2023 - Springer
This paper attempts to extend the approach of quantitative investment and provide investors
with suggestions about volatility timing. Based on the volatility-managed portfolios strategy …

Risk-managed momentum strategies

L Rickenberg - 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
We show that conditional skewness and kurtosis of the momentum strategy are highly time-
varying and sometimes take extreme values or may even not exist. The high negative …

Volatility Scaling's Impact on the Sharpe Ratio

E Hoyle, N Shephard - Available at SSRN 3279787, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the econometric properties of dynamic risk parity, which volatility scales to
equalise risk through time using the precision process, the inverse of the time-varying …

On the Effectiveness of Stock Index Futures for Tail Risk Protection

H Zouari - International Journal of Economics and Financial …, 2022 - search.proquest.com
This paper examines the effectiveness of using stock index futures contracts as substitutes
for fixed-income securities in implementing expected shortfall targeting strategy. We find that …

Can Adaptive Seriational Risk Parity Tame Crypto Portfolios?

J Papenbrock, P Schwendner… - Available at SSRN …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
As cryptocoins are not tied to fundamental values or to investor protection regulation, their
price dynamics is unhinged in both directions. In institutional asset management of …