Artikel

Delivering left-skewed portfolio payoff distributions in the presence of transaction costs

For pension-savers, a low payoff is a financial disaster. Such investors will most likely prefer left-skewed payoff distributions over right-skewed payoff distributions. We explore how such distributions can be delivered. Cautious-relaxed utility measures are cautious in ensuring that payoffs don't fall much below a reference value, but relaxed about exceeding it. We find that the payoff distribution delivered by a cautious-relaxed utility measure has appealing features which payoff distributions delivered by traditional utility functions don't. In particular, cautious-relaxed distributions can have the mass concentrated on the left, hence be left-skewed. However, cautious-relaxed strategies prescribe frequent portfolio adjustments which may be expensive if transaction costs are charged. In contrast, more traditional strategies can be time-invariant. Thus we investigate the impact of transaction costs on the appeal of cautious-relaxed strategies. We find that relatively high transaction fees are required for the cautious-relaxed strategy to lose its appeal. This paper contributes to the literature which compares utility measures by the payoff distributions they produce and finds that a cautious-relaxed utility measure will deliver payoffs that many investors will prefer.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Risks ; ISSN: 2227-9091 ; Volume: 3 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 318-337 ; Basel: MDPI

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
Thema
portfolio management
payoff distributions
pension funds
transaction costs

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Krawczyk, Jacek B.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
MDPI
(wo)
Basel
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.3390/risks3030318
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Krawczyk, Jacek B.
  • MDPI

Entstanden

  • 2015

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