Seminar 217, Risk Management: Predicting Portfolio Return Volatility at Median Horizons

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Predicting Portfolio Return Volatility at Median Horizons

Risk Seminar
Oct 2, 2018, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Speaker: Dangxing Chen, UC Berkeley (Speaker - Featured)
Commercially available factor models provide good predictions of short-horizon (e.g. one day or one week) portfolio volatility, based on estimated portfolio factor loadings and responsive estimates of factor volatility. These predictions are of significant value to certain short-term investors, such as hedge funds. However, they provide limited guidance to long-term investors, such as Defined...