To improve the dynamic assessment of risks of speculative assets, we apply a Markov switching MGARCH approach to portfolio risk forecasting. More specifically, we take advantage of the flexible Markov switching copula multivariate GARCH (MS‐C‐MGARCH) model of Fülle and Herwartz (2022). As...

In this paper we adopt a principal components analysis (PCA) to reduce the dimensionality of the term structure and employ autoregressive (AR) models to forecast principal components which, in turn, are used to forecast swap rates. Arguing in favour of structural variation, we propose...