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48 results for financial asset returns

The article models financial asset returns using Gaussian mixtures and EVT-based copulas to price equity options.

problem Modeling financial asset returns and pricing equity options considering extreme values.
method Modeling marginal distributions with Gaussian mixtures and joint dependence structure with EVT-based copulas.
result The approach accurately prices various equity options on Atos and Dassault Systems actions.

Paper presents a deep learning method for estimating asset return precision matrices in noisy financial markets.

problem Estimating precision matrices of asset returns in low signal-to-noise ratio environments.
method Non-linear factor model within deep learning framework, consistent estimator with error covariance estimator.
result Superior accuracy in simulations and empirical data.

An analysis of the stylized facts in financial time series is carried out. We find that, instead of the heavy tails in asset return distributions, the slow decay behaviour in autocorrelation functions of absolute returns is actually directly related to the degree of clustering of large fluctuations within the financial…

2010-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

A network-based approach identifies financial factors from asset interactions, explaining market dynamics.

problem Characterizing joint financial asset behavior through underlying drivers.
method Modeling market as coupled iterated maps, where asset returns depend on past returns and interactions.
result Stable patterns of co-movement (financial factors) emerge from asset interactions, explaining asset variance.

Model predicts risk-adjusted returns across various financial markets.

problem Stationary models fail in predicting risk-adjusted returns due to market regime changes.
method Asset-independent regime-switching model using hidden Markov models.
result Accurately detects bull, bear, and high volatility periods for improved risk-adjusted returns.

Paper uses news data to model asset correlations without market data.

problem Traditional risk models rely on market data; this paper offers an alternative.
method Uses encoder-only language models to embed news data, then calculates asset return distributions and covariance through Energy Distance.
result Established connections between distributional differences and excess returns co-movements using Energy Distance.

Extends return risk measures to multiple assets, proving properties and comparing different risk models.

problem Evaluating risk in financial markets with multiple assets.
method Develops multi-asset return risk measures (MARRMs), analyzes their properties, and compares them with other risk models.
result Proves that a positively homogeneous MARRM is quasi-convex if and only if it is convex, and provides conditions to avoid inconsistent risk evaluations.

We perform a large-scale simulation of an Ising-based financial market model that includes 300 asset time series. The financial system simulated by the model shows a fat-tailed return distribution and volatility clustering and exhibits unstable periods indicated by the volatility index measured as the average of absolu…

2018-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate entropy as a financial risk measure. Entropy explains the equity premium of securities and portfolios in a simpler way and, at the same time, with higher explanatory power than the beta parameter of the capital asset pricing model. For asset pricing we define the continuous entropy as an alternative meas…

2015-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper optimizes portfolios using clustering and Sharpe ratio-based optimization.

problem Optimizing portfolio performance in financial modeling.
method Combines K-Means clustering for asset segmentation and Sharpe ratio-based optimization.
result Optimized portfolios outperform traditional equal-weighted benchmarks.

A new contrastive learning method extracts asset embeddings from financial time series.

problem Extracting meaningful latent features from noisy financial data.
method Contrastive learning framework using hypothesis testing for positive and negative samples.
result Effective asset embeddings significantly outperform existing methods on financial tasks.

CSHT predicts financial returns from news using a novel transformer model on a sphere.

problem Financial forecasting from news and sentiment.
method Granger-causal hypergraph structure, Riemannian geometry, causally masked Transformer attention.
result CSHT outperforms baselines in return prediction, regime classification, and asset ranking.

There is more and more empirical evidence that multifractality constitutes another and perhaps the most significant financial stylized fact. A realistic model of the financial dynamics should therefore incorporate this effect. The most promising in this respect is the Multifractal Model of Asset Returns (MMAR) introduc…

2006-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Financial market created for wellbeing indices to mitigate socioeconomic risks.

problem Risk mitigation in financial indices of socioeconomic wellbeing.
method Developed new quantitative measure, created financial market, and implemented insurance instruments.
result Optimal portfolio weights and efficient frontiers for wellbeing indices.

A spin model is used for simulations of financial markets. To determine return volatility in the spin financial market we use the GARCH model often used for volatility estimation in empirical finance. We apply the Bayesian inference performed by the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to the parameter estimation of the GAR…

2014-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we consider the optimal portfolio selection problem under hard constraints on trading amounts, transaction costs and different rates for borrowing and lending when the risky asset returns are serially correlated. No assumptions about the correlation structure between different time points or about the dis…

2014-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Multi-stage financial decision optimization under uncertainty depends on a careful numerical approximation of the underlying stochastic process, which describes the future returns of the selected assets or asset categories. Various approaches towards an optimal generation of discrete-time, discrete-state approximations…

2009-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

DeepPocket uses graph convolutional reinforcement learning for better financial portfolio management.

problem Maximizing return on investment while managing risk in correlated financial assets.
method Graph convolutional reinforcement learning framework with feature extraction, local information collection, and actor-critic reinforcement learning.
result DeepPocket outperformed market indexes on five real-life datasets over three investment periods, including during the Covid-19 crisis.

Machine learning models outperform traditional CAPM in forecasting financial asset prices.

problem Predicting and forecasting financial asset prices and returns.
method Comparison of modern Machine Learning algorithms with the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) on U.S. equities data.
result Implemented Machine Learning models significantly outperform the CAPM on out-of-sample test data.

A new model optimizes portfolios by learning stock return distributions conditioned on factors.

problem Optimizing portfolios with high-dimensional asset-specific factors.
method Conditional Diffusion Transformer architecture linking each asset's return to its factor vector.
result The model outperforms benchmarks in mean-variance and mean-CVaR optimization.

Bayesian method predicts asset returns for better portfolio optimization.

problem Uncertainty in financial markets makes traditional portfolio optimization methods unreliable.
method Bayesian predictive synthesis (BPS) combined with dynamic linear models.
result Predicted distribution information improves portfolio performance.

This study compares VaR-based portfolio insurance with CPPI in a regime-switching market.

problem Designing dynamic portfolio insurance strategies in a market with multiple regimes.
method Extends VaR-based portfolio insurance to a Markov-modulated regime-switching market, comparing it to CPPI.
result CPPI strategy generally offers better risk-return tradeoff and stability.

New portfolio optimization method considers both asset-specific and systemic risks for financial networks.

problem Optimizing portfolios with both idiosyncratic and systemic risks in financial networks.
method Developed a multi-objective optimization model that incorporates idiosyncratic variance and network clustering coefficient.
result Optimal portfolios outperform in terms of return measures and have less drawdown compared to traditional strategies.

We present an overview of the broad class of financial models in which the prices of assets are Lévy-Ito processes driven by an nn-dimensional Brownian motion and an independent Poisson random measure. The Poisson random measure is associated with an nn-dimensional Lévy process. Each model consists of a pricing kerne…

2019-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We explore a decomposition in which returns on a large class of portfolios relative to the market depend on a smooth non-negative drift and changes in the asset price distribution. This decomposition is obtained using general continuous semimartingale price representations, and is thus consistent with virtually any ass…

2018-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

In complete markets, there are risky assets and a riskless asset. It is assumed that the riskless asset and the risky asset are traded continuously in time and that the market is frictionless. In this paper, we propose a new method for hedging derivatives assuming that a hedger should not always rely on trading existin…

2016-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper applies quantum probability theory to model asset returns, avoiding assumptions about quantum effects.

problem Modeling asset returns with classical probability theory.
method Derives a Schrödinger-like trading equation using quantum probability, linking it to traders' decisions and market behaviors.
result Quantum probability can describe multimodal distributions of asset returns without assuming quantum effects.

Proposes a model to generate high-dimensional financial returns using latent factor structure.

problem Challenges in financial scenario simulation, especially in high-dimensional and small data settings.
method Integrates latent factor structure into generative diffusion processes, decomposing the score function using time-varying orthogonal projections.
result Establishes rigorous statistical guarantees for score estimation and generated distribution, surpassing dimension-dependent limits.

HANET combines LSTM and attention mechanisms for better financial forecasting.

problem Lack of distinct macroeconomic regimes in financial datasets.
method Hierarchical Cross-Attention mechanism integrating long-run macro contexts with high-frequency market dynamics.
result HANET outperforms neural forecasters, especially during turbulent periods.