assumptions alone in measuring risk. Cushioning against risk has always created a plethora of complexities and challenges; hence …, this paper attempts to analyse statistical properties of various risk measures in a not normal distribution and provide a … financial blueprint on how to manage risk. It is assumed that using old assumptions of normality alone in a distribution is not …

Studies of bond return predictability find a puzzling disparity between strong statistical evidence of return … accounting for important features of bond return models such as time varying parameters, volatility dynamics, and unspanned macro … risk-adjusted portfolio returns after accounting for estimation error and model uncertainty, as evidenced by the …

We find that interest rate variance risk premium (IRVRP) - the difference between implied and realized variances of … interest rates - is a strong predictor of U.S. Treasury bond returns of maturities ranging between one and ten years for return … horizons up to six months. IRVRP is not subsumed by other predictors such as forward rate spread or equity variance risk …

I provide evidence that risks in macroeconomic fundamentals contain valuable information about bond risk premia. I … unemployment rate. In addition, factors provide information about bond risk premia variation that is largely unrelated to that … extract factors from a set of quantile-based risk measures estimated for US macroeconomic variables and document that they …