Risk Premium Principal Components in factor risk parity portfolios
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2021
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Rahoitus
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en
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22
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Factors, and risk are two words which have gained popularity among academics and practitioners alike recently. The popularity of factors is shown in their many applications in pricing and risk-based asset allocation. A recently developed method for latent factor extraction called Risk Premium Principal Component Analysis (RP-PCA), has been shown to outperform the standard PCA in terms of estimating latent factors in the Arbitrage Pricing Theory factor model. I take the idea of better estimation of APT factor model by RP-PCA and test empirically whether RP-PC factor risk parity portfolios outperform those of PCs and Independent Components (ICs) which have been previously used in factor risk parity strategies. In this thesis I find some support that RP-PC factor risk parity portfolios do perform better in terms of risk, but results are unconvincing and further research should be allocated to the topic.Description
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Joenväärä, JuhaKeywords
APT, factors, risk parity, RP-PCA