This paper analyzes the single period portfolio selection problem on the location-scale return family. The skew normal distribution, after recentering and reparameterization, is shown to be in this family. The recentered and reparameterized distribution, called factor-recentered skew normal, can...

We develop a novel method to decompose a straddle into a volatility risk portfolio and a jump risk portfolio. The method utilizes the factor-mimicking portfolios in Cremers et al. (2015) to replicate the straddles that are originally used to construct these factor-mimicking portfolios. Based on...