This paper develops an empirical procedure for analyzing the impact of model misspecification and calibration errors on measures of portfolio credit risk. When applied to large simulated portfolios with realistic characteristics, this procedure reveals that violations of key assumptions of the...

Investors can regard passive environment, social, and governance (ESG) investing as a cost-effective strategy to manage systematic ESG risk. This analysis aims to explain the expected performance of passively following an ESG-screened index within the risk-return paradigm. The author formulates...

Offshore assets present investors with an increased investment universe and additional opportunities for reward, but embedded exposure to exchange rates can result in additional risk. In this work, we consider a global equity portfolio of five equity indices (US, Japan, Europe, UK and Canada),...