Performance Evaluation of Portfolio Insurance Strategies

Performance Evaluation of Portfolio Insurance Strategies
Author: Dima Tawil
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Release: 2015
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This thesis is set out with the objective of evaluating and comparing the performance of portfolio insurance strategies. We try to figure out when and why one portfolio insurance strategy should be preferred by investors in practice. To meet this objective, main portfolio insurance strategies (OBPI, CPPI, Synthetic put and Stop-loss) are compared relatively to each other and to some benchmark strategies. Portfolio insurance strategies are applied within different implementation scenarios and compared according to various criteria that include:1. The payoff functions, stochastic dominance, the level of protection and the cost of insurance under bull and bear market conditions. 2. Various risk adjusted performance measures that reflect different investors' preferences toward risk and return. 3. The preferences of investors who act according to cumulative prospect theory (CPT). Our results reveal a dominant role of CPPI strategy at the majority of cases and according to the majority of comparison criteria.

Performance of Portfolio Insurance Strategies

Performance of Portfolio Insurance Strategies
Author: Hakan Er
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Release: 2014
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In this study, we compare the performances of the two standard portfolio insurance methods: the Option Based Portfolio Insurance (OBPI) and the Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance (CPPI). In prior works, data on many established markets were utilised to investigate this issue. There have also been many empirical studies of portfolio insurance (PI) utilising emerging market data. However, we are not aware of an application PI on Turkish data. This is where our study contributes to PI literature. We use a data set that covers the Istanbul Stock Exchange 30 (ISE-30) stocks, from 1.3.1997 to 29.8.2008. Our main finding is that the implementation of PI (especially CPPI) enhances portfolio performance.

A Bootstrap-Based Comparison of Portfolio Insurance Strategies

A Bootstrap-Based Comparison of Portfolio Insurance Strategies
Author: Hubert Dichtl
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Total Pages: 53
Release: 2014
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This study presents a systematic comparison of portfolio insurance strategies. In order to test for statistical significance of the differences in downside performance risk measures between pairs of portfolio insurance strategies, we use a bootstrap-based hypothesis test. Our comparison of different strategies considers the following distinguishing characteristics: static versus dynamic; initial wealth versus cumulated wealth protection; model-based versus model-free; and strong floor compliance versus probabilistic floor compliance. Our results show that the classical portfolio insurance strategies synthetic put and CPPI provide superior downside protection compared to a simple stop-loss trading rule, also resulting in significantly higher Omega ratios. Analyzing more recently developed strategies, neither the TIPP strategy (as an 'improved' CPPI strategy) nor the dynamic VaR-strategy provide significant improvements over the more traditional portfolio insurance strategies. The attractiveness of the dynamic VaR-strategy strongly depends on the quality of the estimates for the required input parameters, in particular, the equity risk premium. However, if an investor possesses superior forecasting skills, other active (market timing) strategies may exist which generate higher (risk-adjusted) returns compared to a protected passive stock market investment.

Performance Evaluation of Portfolio Insurance Strategies Using Stochastic Dominance Criteria

Performance Evaluation of Portfolio Insurance Strategies Using Stochastic Dominance Criteria
Author: Jan Annaert
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Total Pages: 29
Release: 2007
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The continuing creation of portfolio insurance applications as well as the mixed research evidence suggests that so far no consensus has been reached about the effectiveness of portfolio insurance. Therefore, this paper provides a performance evaluation of the stop-loss, synthetic put and constant proportion portfolio insurance techniques based on a block-bootstrap simulation. Apart from more traditional performance measures, we consider the Value-at-risk and Expected Shortfall of the strategies, which are more appropriate in an insurance context. An additional performance evaluation is given by means of the stochastic dominance framework where we account for sampling error. A sensitivity analysis is performed in order to examine the impact on performance of a change in a specific decision variable (ceteris paribus). The results indicate that a buy-and-hold strategy does not dominate the portfolio insurance strategies at any stochastic dominance order. Moreover, both for the stop-loss and synthetic put strategy a 100% floor value outperforms lower floor values. For the CPPI strategy we find that a higher CPPI multiple enhances the upward potential of the CPPI strategies, but harms the protection level in return. As regards the optimal rebalancing frequency, daily rebalancing should be preferred for the synthetic put and CPPI strategy, despite the higher transaction costs.

Encyclopedia of Finance

Encyclopedia of Finance
Author: Cheng-Few Lee
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 861
Release: 2006-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387262849

This is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance. Coverage includes finance (financial management, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance) and statistical applications in finance (applications in portfolio analysis, option pricing models and financial research). The project is designed to attract both an academic and professional market. It also has an international approach to ensure its maximum appeal. The Editors' wish is that the readers will find the encyclopedia to be an invaluable resource.

Performance Comparison of Bond/Call Option and Portfolio Insurance Strategy

Performance Comparison of Bond/Call Option and Portfolio Insurance Strategy
Author: Dan Shao
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Total Pages: 15
Release: 2008
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The purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of three portfolio insurance strategies which have different theoretical foundations. Although theoretically all of the strategies can protect the portfolio value without losing the chance of enjoying the gains from up movements of the market, the discrepancy between the theory and reality makes this goal hard to achieve. Under realistic assumptions, we conduct simulations to exam the strategy effectiveness with costs involved.

A Risk Management Approach for Portfolio Insurance Strategies

A Risk Management Approach for Portfolio Insurance Strategies
Author: Benjamin Hamidi
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Release: 2009
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Controlling and managing potential losses is one of the main objective of the Risk Management. Following Ben Ameur and Prigent (2007) and Chen et al. (2008), and extending the first results by Hamidi et al. (2009) when adopting a risk management approach for defining insurance portfolio strategies, we analyze and illustrate a specific dynamic portfolio insurance strategy depending on the Value-at-Risk level of the covered portfolio on the French stock market. This dynamic approach is derived from the traditional and popular portfolio insurance strategy (Cf. Black and Jones, 1987; Black and Perold, 1992): the so-called "Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance" (CPPI). However, financial results produced by this strategy crucially depend upon the leverage - called the multiple- likely guaranteeing a predetermined floor value whatever the plausible market evolutions. In other words, the unconditional multiple is defined once and for all in the traditional setting. The aim of this article is to further examine an alternative to the standard CPPI method, based on the determination of a conditional multiple. In this time-varying framework, the multiple is conditionally determined in order for the risk exposure to remain constant, even if it also depends upon market conditions. Furthermore, we propose to define the multiple as a function of an extended Dynamic AutoRegressive Quantile model of the Value-at-Risk (DARQ-VaR). Using a French daily stock database (CAC40 and individual stocks in the period 1998-2008), we present the main performance and risk results of the proposed Dynamic Proportion Portfolio Insurance strategy, first on real market data and secondly on artificial bootstrapped and surrogate data. Our main conclusion strengthens the previous ones: the conditional Dynamic Strategy with Constant-risk exposure dominates most of the time the traditional Constant-asset exposure unconditional strategies.

Portfolio Insurance

Portfolio Insurance
Author: Harry M. Kat
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Release: 2002
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In this article we use stochastic simulation methods to study the performance of a number of different dynamic portfolio insurance strategies, including option replicating portfolio insurance (ORPI), constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) and a modified stop-loss (MSLI) strategy. We assume the underlying portfolio to be the Samp;P 500 tracking portfolio with all dividends reinvested upon receipt. The initial time to maturity is one year. Although the differences are mostly small, our results show that ORPI typically offers more attractive results than CPPI or MSLI. Adjusting the floor rule to lock in intermediate profits or adding a constant horizon feature does not lead to superior results.