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1 Attilio Meucci Managing Diversification

2 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification COMMON MEASURES OF DIVERSIFICATION DIVERSIFICATION DISTRIBUTION MEAN-DIVERSIFICATION FRONTIER CONDITIONAL ANALYSIS REFERENCES

3 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification portfolio return returns of securities (stocks, bonds, options, structured products, ) portfolio weights

4 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification weight-based definitions portfolio weights

5 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification weight-based definitions distribution portfolio weights - positive - sum to one 1 w 5 w 3 0 w 1 w 2 security number

6 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification weight-based definitions entropy distribution portfolio weights - positive - sum to one 1 w 5 w 3 0 w 1 w 2 security number

7 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification weight-based definitions entropy distribution portfolio weights - positive - sum to one 1 w 5 w 3 0 w 1 w 2 security number

8 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification weight-based definitions

9 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification weight-based definitions risk-based definitions returns correlation matrix

10 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification weight-based definitions risk-based definitions returns standard deviations returns covariance matrix

11 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification weight-based definitions factor-based definition portfolio return due to idiosyncratic risk-based definitions

12 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Common Measures of Diversification weight-based definitions factor-based definition risk-based definitions These definitions apply in specific circumstances and or under restrictive hypotheses

13 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification COMMON MEASURES OF DIVERSIFICATION DIVERSIFICATION DISTRIBUTION MEAN-DIVERSIFICATION FRONTIER CONDITIONAL ANALYSIS REFERENCES

14 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution

15 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution if correlations = 0 Example: portfolio of two securities - one bond - one stock w 1 = 50% w 2 = 50% { R } = ( ) 2 Var 1% 1 { R } = ( ) 2 Var 30% 2

16 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution if correlations = 0 Example: portfolio of two securities - one bond - one stock w 1 = 50% w 2 = 50% { R } = ( ) 2 Var 1% 1 { R } = ( ) 2 Var 30% 2 weighs highly diversified risk highly concentrated security number

17 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution if correlations = 0

18 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution if correlations = 0 Example: portfolio of two government bonds in same duration bucket Bond 1 w 1 = 50% { R } = ( ) 2 Var 1% 1 Bond 2 w 2 = 50% { R } = ( ) 2 Var 1% 2

19 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution Example: portfolio of two government bonds in same duration bucket Bond 1 w 1 = 50% { R } = ( ) 2 Var 1% 1 Bond 2 w 2 = 50% { R } = ( ) 2 Var 1% 2 weighs highly diversified volatility homegeneous high concentration due to correlations: full exposure to first principal component

20 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution Σ Cov{ R} R 2 PCA principal portfolio 2 R 1 principal portfolio 1 eigenvectors principal portfolios eigenvalues principal variances

21 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution Σ Cov{ R} return of principal portfolios

22 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution Σ Cov{ R} return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios

23 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution Σ Cov{ R} return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios

24 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution total variance variance concentration curve principal portfolio number return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve contribution to original portfolio variance from n-th principal portfolio:

25 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution Example: portfolio of two government bonds in same duration bucket Bond 1 Bond 2 w 1 = 50% w 2 = 50% weighs highly diversified { R } ( ) 2 1 = { R } = ( ) 2 Var 1% Var 1% 2 volatility homegeneous variance concentration curve loads on one principal portfolio return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve contribution to original portfolio variance from n-th principal portfolio:

26 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution total volatility volatility concentration curve principal portfolio number return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve volatility concentration curve contribution to original portfolio volatility from n-th principal portfolio: hot spots

27 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution 1 diversification distribution 0 principal portfolio number return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve volatility concentration curve diversification distribution contribution to original portfolio r-square from n-th principal portfolio

28 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Diversification Distribution return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve volatility concentration curve diversification distribution

29 Example: management with benchmark portfolios weights benchmark weights relative weights return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve volatility / tracking error concentration curve diversification distribution

30 Example: management with benchmark relative weights return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve volatility / tracking error concentration curve diversification distribution

31 Example: management with benchmark relative weights return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve volatility / tracking error concentration curve diversification distribution

32 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification COMMON MEASURES OF DIVERSIFICATION DIVERSIFICATION DISTRIBUTION MEAN-DIVERSIFICATION FRONTIER CONDITIONAL ANALYSIS REFERENCES

33 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier 1 diversification distribution 0 principal portfolio number return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve volatility concentration curve diversification distribution: probability mass

34 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier diversification index? 1 diversification distribution 0 principal portfolio number return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve volatility concentration curve diversification distribution: probability mass

35 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier diversification index entropy 1 diversification distribution 0 principal portfolio number return of principal portfolios weights of original portfolio on principal portfolios variance concentration curve volatility concentration curve diversification distribution: probability mass

36 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier Effective number of bets diversification index entropy

37 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier Effective number of bets full concentration weights diversification distribution: probability mass

38 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier Effective number of bets full concentration full diversification weights weights diversification distribution: probability mass

39 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier Effective number of bets full concentration full diversification weights Mean-diversification frontier weights

40 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier Effective number of bets full concentration full diversification Mean-diversification frontier weights Allocation in terms of original portfolio weights not principal portfolios

41 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier Effective number of bets full concentration full diversification Transaction costs weights Mean-diversification frontier Non linear, non-continuous function of current and target portfolio

42 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier Effective number of bets full concentration weights full diversification Transaction costs adjusted mean-diversification frontier

43 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Mean-Diversification Frontier Effective number of bets full concentration weights full diversification Transaction costs adjusted mean-diversification frontier Effective number of bets Expected return

44 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification COMMON MEASURES OF DIVERSIFICATION DIVERSIFICATION DISTRIBUTION MEAN-DIVERSIFICATION FRONTIER CONDITIONAL ANALYSIS REFERENCES

45 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Conditional Analysis Constraints feasible set feasible reallocations current portfolio

46 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Conditional Analysis Constraints feasible set feasible reallocations current portfolio Conditional PCA conditional principal portfolios feasible Feasible trades such that

47 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification Conditional Analysis Constraints feasible set conditional principal portfolios complementary feasible reallocations current portfolio Conditional PCA conditional principal portfolios feasible Feasible trades Complementary, unfeasible trades such that such that

48 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification COMMON MEASURES OF DIVERSIFICATION DIVERSIFICATION DISTRIBUTION MEAN-DIVERSIFICATION FRONTIER CONDITIONAL ANALYSIS REFERENCES

49 A. MEUCCI - Managing Diversification References Article: Attilio Meucci, Managing Diversification Risk - May 2009 extended version available at MATLAB examples: MATLAB Central Files Exchange (see above article) This presentation: > Teaching > Talks

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