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ÖBA 8, August 2011, Seite 571

Asset Allocation Taking into Account the Time Lag of Volatility Forecasting

Bettina Friedl

Striving for efficient asset allocation investors usually have limited risk bearing ability. This results in an upper limit for their portfolio volatility that must not be exceeded. Ensuring compliance with this risk limit at any point in time is essentially complicated by two factors: First, portfolio volatility permanently changes over time. Second, there is a considerable time lag between two consecutive estimations of portfolio volatility due to a restricted capacity of the employed technical resources as well as a fixed forecast horizon. This may result in a (considerable) inaccuracy with regard to future volatility which is usually accompanied either by a violation of the risk limit or by a suboptimal asset allocation yielding less than actually achievable return. In order to contribute to the prevention of these drawbacks, this paper focuses on the second factor for forecasting inaccuracy and presents the so-called Risk-at-Risk approach, which allows for the consideration of the time lag with respect to volatility forecasting. Its integration into asset allocation faci...

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