Different approaches to risk estimation in portfolio theory

A Biglova, S Ortobelli, S Rachev… - Journal of Portfolio …, 2004 - search.proquest.com
Some new performance measures may be regarded as alternatives to the most popular
criterion for portfolio optimization, the Sharpe ratio. Analysis of some allocation problems …

Sharpe thinking in asset ranking with one-sided measures

S Farinelli, L Tibiletti - European Journal of Operational Research, 2008 - Elsevier
If we exclude the assumption of normality in return distributions, the classical risk–reward
Sharpe Ratio becomes a questionable tool for ranking risky projects. In line with Sharpe …

Comparing and selecting performance measures using rank correlations

M Caporin, F Lisi - Economics, 2011 - degruyter.com
The financial economics literature proposes dozens of performance measures to be used,
for instance, to compare, analyse, rank and select assets. There is thus a problem: which …

Measuring the behavioural component of the S&P 500 and its relationship to financial stress and aggregated earnings surprises

M Caporin, L Corazzini… - British Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Scholars in management and economics have shown increasing interest in isolating the
behavioural dimension of market evolution. Indeed, by improving forecast accuracy and …

A time-scale analysis of systematic risk: wavelet-based approach

K Khalfaoui Rabeh, B Boutahar Mohamed - 2011 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
The paper studies the impact of different time-scales on the market risk of individual stock
market returns and of a given portfolio in Paris Stock Market by applying the wavelet …

Computational asset allocation using one-sided and two-sided variability measures

S Farinelli, D Rossello, L Tibiletti - International Conference on …, 2006 - Springer
Excluding the assumption of normality in return distributions, a general reward-risk ratio
suitable to compare portfolio returns with respect to a benchmark must includes …

Rational learning for risk-averse investors by conditioning on behavioral choices

M Costola, M Caporin - Annals of Financial Economics, 2016 - World Scientific
The authors present a rational learner agent, which considers the information coming from a
behavioral counterpart during the allocation process. The learner agent adopts a herding …

Value-at-risk: is lacking in sub-additivity just an annoying technicality?

L Tibiletti - International Journal of Risk Assessment and …, 2008 - inderscienceonline.com
Following the final revision of Basel II, Value-at-Risk (VaR) is becoming one of the most
used risk measures for managing market and operational risks. Nevertheless, in recent …

Measuring the Behavioral Component of Financial Fluctuations: An Analysis Based on the S&P 500

M Caporin, L Corazzini, M Costola - Available at SSRN 2504381, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the evolution of the behavioral component of the financial market by estimating a
Bayesian mixture model in which two types of investors coexist: one rational, with standard …

[PDF][PDF] Empirical performance of alternative risk measures in portfolio selection-the case of South African stock market

R Macharia - 2021 - su-plus.strathmore.edu
Portfolio selection is the process of apportioning capital to a finite number of assets given the
wider set of all investment options. The decision of best combination of assets to invest in is …