Arbeitspapier
Portfolio Selection with Heavy Tails
Consider the portfolio problem of choosing the mix between stocks and bonds under a downside risk constraint. Typically stock returns exhibit fatter tails than bonds corresponding to their greater downside risk. Downside risk criteria like the safety first criterion therefore often select corner solutions in the sense of a bonds only portfolio. This is due to a focus on the asymptotically dominating first order Pareto term of the portfolio return distribution. We show that if second order terms are taken into account, a balanced solution emerges. The theory is applied to empirical examples from the literature.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 05-009/2
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- Subject
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safety first
heavy tails
portfolio diversification
Portfolio-Management
Entscheidung bei Risiko
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hyung, Namwon
de Vries, Casper G.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
- (where)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (when)
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2005
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hyung, Namwon
- de Vries, Casper G.
- Tinbergen Institute
Time of origin
- 2005
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