US portfolio recom. 3, Septiembre 2012

The portfolio recommendation is based on two low-volatility strategies: a long-only minimum-variance portfolio and a“130:30” minimum-variance portfolio, which is long 130% and short 30%. These strategies use advanced Optimization and Statisticstechniques to hedge against the estimation risk of the associated models. As a result, they attain consistently better risk-adjusted returns than market indexes, as these portfolio recommendations show. For more details about...+

Paper: Too central to fail

Too Central to Fail? Financial Networks, the FED and Systemic Risk Systemic risk, here meant as the risk of default of a large portion of the financial system, depends on the network of financial exposures among institutions. However, there is no widely accepted methodology to determine the systemically important nodes in a network. To fill...+