Essays about: "risk-neutral portfolio"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words risk-neutral portfolio.

  1. 1. Decomposition of ETFs: Building a synthetic portfolio of ETFs major positions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Donatas Gadlijauskas; Evelina Sarul; [2022]
    Keywords : ETF; Portfolio optimization; Sharpe ratio; VaR; GARCH; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper investigates the performance of benchmark indices and according ETFs against the synthetic portfolios that were built using the five major holdings of the selected benchmark index and its ETF. Not only do we test the synthetic portfolios, but from them, we make optimal (re-balanced) portfolios using mean-variance optimization (with short-selling constraints). READ MORE

  3. 2. Alternative Methods of Estimating Investor´s Risk Appetite

    University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Felix Kuritzén; [2019]
    Keywords : Risk appetite; Riskaptit;

    Abstract : In this thesis three risk appetite indexes are derived and measured from the beginning of 2006 to the end of the first quarter in 2019. One of the risk appetite indexes relies on annualized returns and volatilities from risky and safe assets while the others relies on subjective and risk neutral probability distributions. READ MORE

  4. 3. Measuring the Risk-neutral Probability Distribution of Equity Index Options

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Produktionsekonomi

    Author : Gustav Dackner; Linus Falk; [2019]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The focus of this master thesis is to develop a model that measures the risk-neutral probability distributionof the future value of a portfolio consisting of options on the S&P 500 index. The cornerstone of the model is an explicit and thorough construction of the local volatility surface. The parametric model of Coleman etal. READ MORE

  5. 4. Thesis - Optimizing Smooth Local Volatility Surfaces with Power Utility Functions

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Produktionsekonomi; Linköpings universitet/Tekniska fakulteten

    Author : Gustav Sällberg; Pontus Söderbäck; [2015]
    Keywords : local volatility surface; LVS; optimization; roughness; smooth; risk neutral pricing; optimal growth; pricing error; automatic differentiation; algorithmic differentiation;

    Abstract : The master thesis is focused on how a local volatility surfaces can be extracted by optimization with respectto smoothness and price error. The pricing is based on utility based pricing, and developed to be set in arisk neutral pricing setting. READ MORE

  6. 5. High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio Optimization

    University essay from KTH/Optimeringslära och systemteori

    Author : Zakaria Marakbi; CARLOS JUNIOR LOPEZ VYDRIN; [2014]
    Keywords : high-yield corporate bonds; optimization; dominant design;

    Abstract : The fixed maturity, cash flow and risk characteristics of high-yield corporate bonds distinguish them from equities and complicate a direct application of well established optimization techniques such as Markowitz's mean-variance model and Sharpe ratio maximization. This can partly explain why qualitative methods constitute the dominant design in the portfolio selection process of high-yield corporate bonds. READ MORE