Arbeitspapier
Hedging with commodity futures and the end of normal backwardation
Using the S&P GSCI and its five component sub-indices, we show that considering each commodity separately yields nontrivial hedging gains in and out of sample. During 1999-2019, the maximum Sharpe ratio portfolio assigns positive weights to the GSCI Energy, Industrial and Precious Metals, whereas only precious metals enter the optimal portfolio after the financial crisis. In out-of-sample optimizations based on dynamic conditional correlations, a subset of commodity futures excluding the GSCI Agriculture and Livestock outperforms conventional stock-bond portfolios with and without the overall GSCI. We argue that the "normal backwardation" in commodity markets has broken down during our sample period.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2021
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Financial Econometrics
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
Financial Forecasting and Simulation
Commodity Markets
- Thema
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Commodity futures
Diversification
Hedging
Financial crisis
Normal backwardation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Güntner, Jochen
Karner, Benjamin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
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Linz
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Güntner, Jochen
- Karner, Benjamin
- Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2020