TY - JOUR
T1 - A copula-based scenario tree generation algorithm for multiperiod portfolio selection problems
AU - Yan, Zhe
AU - Chen, Zhiping
AU - Consigli, Giorgio
AU - Liu, Jia
AU - Jin, Ming
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the editor and three anonymous reviewers for their extremely detailed and insightful comments and suggestions, which have led to a substantial improvement of the paper in both content and style. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Numbers 11571270 and 71371152).
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PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - Global financial investors have been confronted in recent years with an increasing frequency of market shocks and returns’ outliers, until the unprecedented surge of financial risk observed in 2008. From a statistical viewpoint, those market dynamics have shown not only asymmetric returns and fat tails but also a time-varying tail dependence, stimulating the formulation of portfolio selection models based on such assumptions. The concept of tail dependence on upper or lower tails, roughly speaking, focuses on the risk that tail events may occur jointly in different markets. This notion can be given a rigorous probabilistic definition, and it turns out that a distinction between upper and lower tails is relevant in portfolio management. In this paper, relying on a discrete modeling framework, we present a scenario generation algorithm able to capture this time-varying asymmetric tail dependence, and evaluate resulting optimal investment policies based on 4-stages 1-month planning horizons. The scenario tree aims at approximating a stochastic process combining an ARMA-GARCH model and a dynamic Student-t-Clayton copula. From a methodological viewpoint, scenario trees are generated from this model by stage-wisely sampling and clustering and to improve tail fitting with original data, the scenarios’ nodal probabilities are calibrated on the returns’ lower tails for a set of equity indices. The resulting scenario trees are then applied to solve a multiperiod portfolio selection problem. We present a set of empirical results to validate the adopted statistical approach and the optimal portfolio strategies able to capture asymmetric tail returns.
AB - Global financial investors have been confronted in recent years with an increasing frequency of market shocks and returns’ outliers, until the unprecedented surge of financial risk observed in 2008. From a statistical viewpoint, those market dynamics have shown not only asymmetric returns and fat tails but also a time-varying tail dependence, stimulating the formulation of portfolio selection models based on such assumptions. The concept of tail dependence on upper or lower tails, roughly speaking, focuses on the risk that tail events may occur jointly in different markets. This notion can be given a rigorous probabilistic definition, and it turns out that a distinction between upper and lower tails is relevant in portfolio management. In this paper, relying on a discrete modeling framework, we present a scenario generation algorithm able to capture this time-varying asymmetric tail dependence, and evaluate resulting optimal investment policies based on 4-stages 1-month planning horizons. The scenario tree aims at approximating a stochastic process combining an ARMA-GARCH model and a dynamic Student-t-Clayton copula. From a methodological viewpoint, scenario trees are generated from this model by stage-wisely sampling and clustering and to improve tail fitting with original data, the scenarios’ nodal probabilities are calibrated on the returns’ lower tails for a set of equity indices. The resulting scenario trees are then applied to solve a multiperiod portfolio selection problem. We present a set of empirical results to validate the adopted statistical approach and the optimal portfolio strategies able to capture asymmetric tail returns.
KW - Copula
KW - Portfolio selection
KW - Scenario tree generation
KW - Tail of the distribution
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U2 - 10.1007/s10479-019-03147-9
DO - 10.1007/s10479-019-03147-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060819383
SN - 0254-5330
VL - 292
SP - 849
EP - 881
JO - Annals of Operations Research
JF - Annals of Operations Research
IS - 2
ER -