Risk, VaR, CVaR and their associated Portfolio Optimizations when Asset Returns have a Multivariate Student T Distribution

Autor:	Shaw, William T.
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Quantitative Finance - Portfolio Management Mathematics - Optimization and Control Quantitative Finance - Risk Management Statistics - Applications 91G10 90C30 62P05
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We show how to reduce the problem of computing VaR and CVaR with Student T return distributions to evaluation of analytical functions of the moments. This allows an analysis of the risk properties of systems to be carefully attributed between choices of risk function (e.g. VaR vs CVaR); choice of return distribution (power law tail vs Gaussian) and choice of event frequency, for risk assessment. We exploit this to provide a simple method for portfolio optimization when the asset returns follow a standard multivariate T distribution. This may be used as a semi-analytical verification tool for more general optimizers, and for practical assessment of the impact of fat tails on asset allocation for shorter time horizons.
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.5665 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv