From 2004 to 2015, the market perception of the sovereign risks of the Euro area government bonds experienced several different phases, reflected in a clear time structure of the correlation matrix between the yield changes. "Core" and "peripheral" bonds cluster in a bloc-like structure, but the...

As cryptocoins are not tied to fundamental values or to investor protection regulation, their price dynamics is unhinged in both directions. In institutional asset management of conventional asset classes, target volatility concepts and dynamic allocation heuristics are popular to improve the...

In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework named 'Adaptive Seriational Risk Parity' (ASRP) to extend Hierarchical Risk Parity (HRP) as an asset allocation heuristic. The first step of HRP (quasi-diagonalization) determining the hierarchy of assets is required for the actual...

From 2004 to 2015, the market perception of the sovereign risks of the euro area government bonds experienced several different phases, reflected in a clear time structure of the correlation matrix between the yield changes. “Core” and “peripheral” bonds cluster in a bloc-like structure,...

From 2004 to 2015, the market perception of the sovereign risks of the euro area government bonds experienced several different phases, reflected in a clear time structure of the correlation matrix between the yield changes. "Core" and "peripheral" bonds cluster in a bloc-like structure, but the...

Since the early beginning of investing as it was commonly seen as a form of gambling for the rich and wealthy, the idea of Harry Markowitz was revolutionising the way of thinking and how portfolios should be constructed. However, today the traditional mean-variance portfolios are still not fully...

We provide an extreme value analysis of the returns of Bitcoin. A particular focus is on the tail risk characteristics and we will provide an in-depth univariate extreme value analysis. Those properties will be compared to the traditional exchange rates of the G10 currencies versus the US...