How Much Can a Risk Metric Lie?
A stress test of ten standard risk and performance statistics against five manipulation attacks, measuring how far each can be inflated without any genuine improvement in the underlying investment.
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A stress test of ten standard risk and performance statistics against five manipulation attacks, measuring how far each can be inflated without any genuine improvement in the underlying investment.
An analysis of how correlation, covariance and asset allocation influence portfolio volatility, comparing concentrated equity exposure with broader cross-asset diversification.
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Future reports currently in research. Titles and scope may change before publication.
Comparing two simple portfolio construction rules to test whether minimising variance actually delivers a better risk-adjusted outcome than naive equal weighting.
Testing whether an asset's sensitivity to the broad market is stable over time, or whether beta itself shifts across bull, bear and sideways regimes.
An empirical test of momentum-based strategies, evaluated on a risk-adjusted rather than a raw-return basis.
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