1 F.S. Lhabitant Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority. New Absolute Return Strategies for Wealth Management Francois-Serge Lhabitant Chief Investment Officer, Kedge Capital, Professor of Finance, H.E.C. Lausanne and EDHEC [email protected]
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F.S. Lhabitant
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
New Absolute Return Strategies for WealthManagement
Francois-Serge Lhabitant Chief Investment Officer, Kedge Capital, Professor of Finance, H.E.C. Lausanne and EDHEC
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
References
– Chardon M., Lhabitant F.S., Mirlesse D. (2006), Absolute Returns in Wealth Management: Implementing Risk Controlled Strategies, The Journal of Financial Transformation, vol. 16, pp. 111-121.
– Lhabitant F.S., Mirlesse D. (2007), Global Asset Management, forthcoming at John Wiley and Sons, London, 288 pages.
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F.S. Lhabitant
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Question
How should we allocate to equities as an asset class?
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Long only managers
Long only managers are the traditional way of gaining exposure to equity markets.
Long only managersPortfolio with adjusted
market exposure
Equity Markets
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Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Little Evidence of Equity Alpha
Mutual fund managers under-perform equity indices on the long-run.
Indexing is more effective.
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Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Little Evidence of Equity Alpha
VALUE STOCKS
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Large Cap 87% 97% 81% 94% 54% 80% Mid Cap 82% 91% 67% 84% 57% 78% Small Cap 43% 94% 17% 44% 16% 29% Source: Morningstar, BGI
Percentage of active managers under-performing their reference index (U.S. equity funds, from January 1995 to December 2004)
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Long only managers
A long only strategy can be decomposed into an active and a passive component.
Passive strategyActive strategy
Indexing vehiclesLong/Short Managers
Long only managersPortfolio with adjusted
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Active Strategies:Long/Short Managers
– Active strategies– Aim at maximizing performance subject to constraints set by
investors.– Investing in skills.– Relative independence from the market cycles.– Possible underperformance during strong bull markets.– Importance of fee structure.
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Active Strategies:Long/Short Managers
Hedge fund indices tend to have significant beta exposure to equity markets. They have a long bias.
But it is still possible to find long/short equity managers that are relatively independent from market conditions.
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R2 heat map of an hedge fund index and several active managers regressed versus equity indices.
EDHEC L/S Mgr 1 Mgr 2 Mgr3 Mgr 4 Mgr 5. Mgr 6MSCI WORLD VALUE INDEX
MSCI Value North America USDMSCI EAFE VALUE INDEX
MSCI Value Europe USDMSCI WORLD GROWTH INDEX
MSCI Growth North America USDMSCI EAFE GROWTH INDEX
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Passive Strategies:Indexing Vehicles
– Index funds– Traditional tracking vehicle.
– Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) – Low operating cost, liquid and tax efficient.– Issues on brokerage cost and dividends.
– Futures and Synthetic Indexing– Mix of cash and long futures.– Lower transaction costs than ETF and index funds. – Uncertainty on rollover conditions and realized dividend.
– Swaps and Synthetic indexing– Pay Libor + Spread and receive the total return on an index.– No tracking error.– More cost-effective ETFs.– Liquidity and credit exposure issues.
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** Period Dec 02 to Jun 05 *Period Apr 00 to Jun 05** Period Dec 02 to Jun 05 *Period Jan 95 to Jun 05
Europe (STOXX 50) U.S. (S&P 500)
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Equity Risk Premium
On the long run, stocks outperform bonds.
On the short run, equity markets require risk control.
The equity risk premium.over 12-month and 36-month holding periods
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Risk Controlled Strategies: Option Based Portfolio Insurance (OBPI)
– Not a new idea: it was already invented in the late 1980’s.
– OBPI = buy a protective put option on the index.– May also be implemented through call options
– As for any insurance strategy, there is a premium to pay upfront.– an expensive protection implies a smaller amount to allocate to the index,
and therefore, a lower participation to the upside
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Risk Controlled Strategies: Option Based Portfolio Insurance (OBPI)
Upside participation rate as a function of the capital protection required and the prevailing interest rate. The volatility level is assumed to be 25% for all cases, and
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Risk Controlled Strategies: Option Based Portfolio Insurance (OBPI)
– Out-of-the-money put options are usually far more expensive (in implied volatility terms) than at-the-money options.
– Fear of market crashes ?
– The set of available maturities for put options is limited and the longer term ones are often illiquid.
– Rolling out a sequence of short-maturity options results in a highly path-dependant strategy.
– Alternative– Dynamic strategy with a delta-based readjustment of the hedge.– Drawback: transaction costs, buy high & sell low path type.
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– Introduced by Perold, Black and Jones in the 1990s
– Simply stated: buy when the index rises in value and sell when it falls in value.
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– In a flat oscillating market, however, the CPPI will do relatively poorly, as the investor buys on strength only to the see the market weaken
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– In addition, the CPPI strategy is purely driven by the profit and losses of the portfolio, but has no consideration whatsoever of the risk conditions prevailing on the market.
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Risk Controlled Strategies: Volatility Cap
– A dynamic allocation rule that aims at maintaining a constant target risk exposure (measured in terms of volatility) to equity markets.
– Systematically increasing the index exposure as the index volatility falls below the target and decreasing the index exposure when the index volatility rises above the target.
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Risk Controlled Strategies: Volatility Cap
– The VC strategy only attempts to provide downside protection by reducing the index exposure during periods of high volatility.
– No “guarantee” of a floor amount for the portfolio. – Completely ignores the P&L on the portfolio– Ignores any notion of risk budget.
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Risk Controlled Indexation – Key Principles
– Determine the desired annual risk budget (10% p.a.).
– Derive a daily risk budget as a portion of this total risk budget.– Daily Risk Budget = Min (30% of the Total Risk Budget, 3% of
Portfolio Value)
– Establish the corresponding market exposure.– the portfolio’s daily 1% value at risk (at a confidence level of
99% in our case) is always equal to the daily risk budget.
– Adjust the exposure daily according to market volatility and P&L
– Issue a daily series of stop losses based on the available risk budget.
– Benchmark– The relevant index plus a one-year put option @ 90%.
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Risk Controlled Indexation: Historical Comparison
Downside protectionMaximal loss: -10% (risk budget in the presented simulation).
Several cases of outperformance relative to the index.
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Risk Controlled Indexation versus index: 1 year simulation, daily rolling, January 1990 to June 2004
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Risk Controlled Indexation
The RCI strategy. The numbers on the horizontal axis indicate the level of market volatility (basis of 100 at inception)
Exposure Index RCI FloorPortfolio value Exposure level
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Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
RCI with an early market crash and a smooth recovery
Deep market fall early in the year brings the equity exposure close to its minimum level.
Market recovery is accompanied by a significant volatility which limits the exposition’s increase.
Discretionary decision could then be taken as whether to close the portfolio or inject some extra risk budget.
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Risk Controlled Indexation: early market crash simulation, 1 year period
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Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd is advised by Steadfast Advisory Services Ltd, a connected company authorised and regulated in the U.K. by the Financial Services Authority.
Capital Protection: Market Conditions & Summary Table
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Conclusions
– An effective way to track an index while having some downside protection.
– The downside protection is based on risk, not just on P&L.