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48 results for Investor Protection

In this paper, we consider a dynamic asset pricing model in an approximate fractional economy to address empirical regularities related to both investor protection and past information. Our newly developed model features not only in terms with a controlling shareholder who diverts a fraction of the output, but also goo…

2019-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Investors target specific regions of payoff distributions for portfolio optimization.

problem Optimizing portfolio performance across different return distribution regions.
method Developed a dynamic portfolio-choice framework targeting downside or upside quantiles.
result Policies focused on downside regions provide stronger left-tail protection and higher Sharpe ratios.

Blockchain protocol improves traditional mutual funds with performance fees and investor protection.

problem Operational issues and performance fees in traditional mutual funds.
method Developed a blockchain protocol that integrates features of mutual funds and hedge funds.
result Blockchain can simplify performance fee calculations and protect investors.

Value adjustment of uncollateralized trades is determined within a risk-neutral pricing framework. When hedging such trades, investors cannot freely trade protection on their own name, thus facing an incomplete market. This fact is reflected in the non-uniqueness of the pricing measure, which is only constrained by the…

2014-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the optimal investment problem when the traded asset may default, causing a jump in its price. For an investor with constant absolute risk aversion, we compute indifference prices for defaultable bonds, as well as a price for dynamic protection against default. For the latter problem, our work complements S…

2017-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper examines pricing and hedging strategies for cross-currency equity protection swaps.

problem Dynamic requirements from EPS buyers in cross-currency equity protection swaps.
method Detailed analysis of two hedging paradigms, including separate and aggregated returns, with consideration of different types of returns.
result Proposes various hedging strategies with practical implications for EPS providers and investors.

For the past two decades investors have observed long memory and highly correlated behavior of asset classes that does not fit into the framework of Modern Portfolio Theory. Custom correlation and standard deviation estimators consider normal distribution of returns and market efficiency hypothesis. It forced investors…

2017-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

A new risk measure (FRM) for EM FI returns helps investors protect against volatility and policy instability.

problem Systemic risk in EM FI returns due to external shocks and domestic policy instability.
method Daily FRM-EM measure applied to 25 largest EM FI returns, incorporating Macro factors.
result FRM-EM captures systemic risk behavior in EM FI returns, reaching maximum during crises.

We study the problem of portfolio insurance from the point of view of a fund manager, who guarantees to the investor that the portfolio value at maturity will be above a fixed threshold. If, at maturity, the portfolio value is below the guaranteed level, a third party will refund the investor up to the guarantee. In ex…

2011-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a stochastic game between a trader and a central bank in a target zone market with a lower currency peg. This currency peg is maintained by the central bank through the generation of permanent price impact, thereby aggregating an ever increasing risky position in foreign reserves. We describe this situation…

2018-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

CDS options allow investors to express a view on spread volatility and obtain a wider range of payoffs than are possible with vanilla CDS. We give a detailed exposition of different types of single-name CDS option, including options with upfront protection payment, recovery options and recovery swaps, and also presents…

2011-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

In complex systems like financial market, risk tolerance of individuals is crucial for system resilience.The single-security price limit, designed as risk tolerance to protect investors by avoiding sharp price fluctuation, is blamed for feeding market panic in times of crash.The relationship between the critical market…

2019-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Options financial instruments designed to protect investors from the stock market randomness. In 1973, Fisher Black, Myron Scholes and Robert Merton proposed a very popular option pricing method using stochastic differential equations within the Ito interpretation. Herein, we derive the Black-Scholes equation for the o…

2000-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The performance of trend following strategies can be ascribed to the difference between long-term and short-term realized variance. We revisit this general result and show that it holds for various definitions of trend strategies. This explains the positive convexity of the aggregate performance of Commodity Trading Ad…

2016-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The option is a financial derivative, which is regularly employed in reducing the risk of its underlying securities. However, investing in option is still risky. Such risk becomes much severer for speculators who utilize option as a means of leverage to increase their potential returns. In order to mitigate risk on the…

2017-08-07abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we consider some insurance policies related to drawdown and drawup events of log-returns for an underlying asset modeled by a spectrally negative geometric Lévy process. We consider four contracts, three of which were introduced in Zhang et al. (2013) for a geometric Brownian motion. The first one is an i…

2017-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a new portfolio allocation method using LLMs to outperform traditional strategies.

problem Persistent tradeoff between risk and return in portfolio management.
method Follow-the-leader approach with sentiment-based trade filtering and LLM-driven hedging.
result Empirical results show a 69% increase in annualized returns and 119% in Sharpe ratio compared to SPY buy-and-hold.

This paper studies the stochastic modeling of market drawdown events and the fair valuation of insurance contracts based on drawdowns. We model the asset drawdown process as the current relative distance from the historical maximum of the asset value. We first consider a vanilla insurance contract whereby the protectio…

2013-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops methods to measure and reduce fairness in datasets with limited protected attribute labels.

problem Measuring and reducing fairness in datasets with limited protected attribute labels.
method Proposes methods to estimate fairness metrics and train models to limit fairness violations using probabilistic protected attribute labels.
result Our methods provide tighter bounds on true disparity and effectively reduce fairness violations with lesser fairness-accuracy trade-offs.

Study protects federated learning models from eavesdropping attacks.

problem Protecting client models in federated learning from eavesdropping adversaries.
method Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments examining various factors.
result Theoretical and experimental results show the effectiveness of protection methods.

Fairness audits fail under missing protected labels, especially at zero access.

problem Understanding the reliability of fairness audits with incomplete protected-label data.
method Introduced a seed-calibrated stress test to separate missingness effects from seed-to-seed movement.
result Missing protected labels do not significantly alter fairness mitigation methods, but they can lead to harmful intersectional outcomes.

The paper analyzes how to combine self-protection and self-insurance for risk reduction.

problem Combining self-protection and self-insurance for risk reduction when market insurance is absent.
method The approach uses Value-at-Risk and Tail Value-at-Risk to evaluate residual risk and solves the problem using isoquant geometry based on marginal-balance curves.
result The analysis identifies the conditions under which self-protection and self-insurance behave as substitutes or complements.

Researchers create topologically protected knots in a realizable system.

problem Creating topologically protected vortex knots in experimentally realizable systems.
method Investigated non-Abelian vortices in tetrahedral order in spin-2 Bose--Einstein condensates and bent-core nematic liquid crystals.
result Discovered the first topologically protected knots in an experimentally realizable system.

The paper proposes methods to infer from privacy-protected data using simulation-based techniques.

problem Valid statistical inference from privacy-protected data is computationally challenging.
method Simulation-based inference methods, including sequential Monte Carlo and neural conditional density estimators.
result Valid statistical inferences can be made from privacy-protected data.

Framework for fair classification with noisy protected attributes and provable guarantees.

problem Fair classification with noisy protected attributes.
method Optimization framework for linear and linear-fractional fairness constraints, handling multiple non-binary attributes.
result Provably fair classifier with minimal accuracy loss, even with large noise.

Fair clustering under the disparate impact doctrine requires that population of each protected group should be approximately equal in every cluster. Previous work investigated a difficult-to-scale pre-processing step for kk-center and kk-median style algorithms for the special case of this problem when the number of …

2019-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

A multi-task network avoids indirect discrimination in insurance pricing.

problem Indirect discrimination in insurance pricing models based on protected characteristics.
method Multi-task neural network architecture trained with partial protected characteristic information.
result Multi-task network produces discrimination-free insurance prices with comparable accuracy to conventional models.

Protects user privacy in models using optional personal data.

problem Ensuring fairness for users who opt-out of data sharing.
method Formalizes protection requirements, introduces Protected User Consent (PUC), devises data augmentation strategy.
result PUC-compliant models can improve performance without disadvantaging opt-out users.

ARL improves fairness without protected features, showing AUC improvements for worst-case groups.

problem Training fairness in ML without known protected features.
method Adversarially Reweighted Learning (ARL) using non-protected features and task labels.
result ARL improves Rawlsian Max-Min fairness with notable AUC improvements for worst-case groups.

Study on stock portfolio concentration among Finnish households and investors.

problem Understanding the concentration of stock portfolios owned by Finnish households and investors.
method Analysis of stock portfolios using Herfindahl-Hirschman index over 20 years.
result High portfolio concentration observed in Finnish retail investors, similar to institutional investors.

Investor skill levels affect optimal portfolio size, study shows.

problem Optimal portfolio size for different skill levels of investors.
method Mathematical methods to study annual and continuous portfolio diversification, regression analysis.
result Strong investors should hold concentrated portfolios, poor investors should hold diversified portfolios.

Proposes a new method for fairness in machine learning with multiple protected attributes.

problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models with continuous and multiple protected attributes.
method Distance covariance regularisation framework to mitigate association between model predictions and protected attributes.
result Demonstrates effectiveness in mitigating fairness gerrymandering in regression tasks.

New algorithm mitigates bias in subset selection with noisy protected attributes.

problem Mitigating bias in subset selection when protected attributes are noisy.
method Formulated a denoised selection problem and developed a linear-programming based approximation algorithm.
result The approach can produce fairer subsets despite noisy protected attributes.