I explore the benefits of incorporating conditional higher moments in the international portfolio allocation. The quantile-based conditional higher moments are robust to the outliers and exhibit considerable time-variation and heterogeneity across countries. My empirical evidence shows that...

We investigate how to best model skewness for portfolio choice decisions. To this end, we compare the predictive ability and portfolio performance of several prominent skewness models in a sample of ten international equity market indices. Overall, models that employ information from the option...