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Risk parity and other risk based portfolio allocation approaches in South African and international equity markets

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Main Author: Panulo, Barry
Other Authors: Van Rensburg, Paul
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: School of Economics 2014
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8508 Risk parity and other risk based portfolio allocation approaches in South African and international equity markets Panulo, Barry Van Rensburg, Paul Huang, Chun-Sung Includes bibliographical references. Risk parity, a portfolio allocation technique based on the equalization of constituent risk contributions, has garnered significant attention in academic circles over the past decade. This study employs back-tests to explore the empirical performance of the approach relative to other prominent heuristic and risk based allocation techniques on South Africa's All Share Index (ALSI) and 12 auxiliary international equity indices. We find that the technique discharges its core risk contribution equalization objectives well in out of sample testing but appears to lag other risk based allocation techniques in terms of risk and return performance. We also establish links between the approaches' performance and leverage aversion theory and find some evidence that levels of market concentration may impact the performance of risk parity portfolios across equity indices. 2014-10-17T10:08:10Z 2014-10-17T10:08:10Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8508 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town
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Risk parity and other risk based portfolio allocation approaches in South African and international equity markets
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title Risk parity and other risk based portfolio allocation approaches in South African and international equity markets
title_full Risk parity and other risk based portfolio allocation approaches in South African and international equity markets
title_fullStr Risk parity and other risk based portfolio allocation approaches in South African and international equity markets
title_full_unstemmed Risk parity and other risk based portfolio allocation approaches in South African and international equity markets
title_short Risk parity and other risk based portfolio allocation approaches in South African and international equity markets
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