This paper investigates variance risk premia in energy commodities, particularly crude oil and natural gas, using a robust model-independent approach. Over a period of 11 years, we find that the average variance risk premia are significantly negative for both energy commodities. However, it is difficult to explain the level and variation in energy variance risk premia with systematic or commodi...

In this paper we analyze the influence of market climates on mutual fund Sharpe ratios. First, in a theoretical analysis based on a common factor model in performance analysis, we show that a significant bias results from market climate – in addition to the obvious influence of fund management performance. Market climate is determined by the random mean and standard deviation of market excess r...

In this paper we develop an asset allocation model which allocates assets by maximising expected return subject to the constraint that the expected maximum loss should meet the Value-at-Risk limits set by the risk manager. Similar to the mean-variance approach a performance index like the Sharpe index is constructed. Furthermore it is shown that the model nests the mean-variance approach in cas...

A so called Zipf analysis portofolio management technique is introduced in order to comprehend the risk and returns. Two portofoios are built each from a well known financial index. The portofolio management is based on two approaches: one called the " equally weighted portofolio " , the other the " confidence parametrized portofolio ". A discussion of the (yearly) expected return, variance, Sh...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of information delay on theperformance of joint investment funds. In order to achieve the aim of thisstudy sample consisted of twenty funds in the Tehran Stock Exchange from2010 to 2014 the systematic elimination method has been adopted. In thisstudy, the linear regression test has been used in order to evaluate the researchhypothesis. Data analys...