stress-testing - better portfolio mgmt
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Stress-Testing - Better Portfolio Mgmt. Steven P. Greiner, Ph.D. Director of Risk, FactSet Research Systems. Agenda. Why do Stress-Testing? Governance, that’s why!! Extreme-Event Stress-Testing Going Non-Linear: Markov-Chain MC Conclusions. Governance – Ethics – Survey Results. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Stress-Testing - Better Portfolio Mgmt
Steven P. Greiner, Ph.D.Director of Risk, FactSet Research Systems
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Agenda
• Why do Stress-Testing? Governance, that’s why!!
• Extreme-Event Stress-Testing
• Going Non-Linear: Markov-Chain MC
• Conclusions
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Governance – Ethics – Survey Results
PRESENTATION FROM FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS
+ We are painfully aware of the public opinion towards the financial sector in the wake of continued financial crisis
Extreme Event Stress-Testing
Practical Example4
Some Stress-Testing Methodologies
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EXTREME EVENT
1) Begins with a risk model, you need some way of estimating correlations (covariance) across assets
2) Obtain the covariance (or factor returns) from some historical “stressed” market environment or your own innovation
3) Use this covariance to compute risks &/or these factor returns to compute returns on today’s portfolio
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You run a risk report and see the VaR increase over the last several weeks
and you think..............
Risk = <w*E*C*Et*wt> + <w*V(ε)*wt>
Is this risk level change caused by trades (w), exposure changes (E), or market
volatility (systemic risk) itself (C)?6
Observations
+ 1 1/17
+ 2 1/24
+ 3 1/31
+ 4 2/7
+ 5 2/14
+ 6 2/21
+ 7 2/26
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Recipe to Interpret Effects
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• Select several sequential weekly time periods
• Compute 95% VaR using all the combinations of actual portfolios, frozen portfolios (i.e. exposures) & covariance on those dates
• Choose 7 weeks: one obtains a 7 X 7 matrix of exposure changes on one axis & covariance changes on the other
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Recipe to Interpret Effects
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• When exposures are fixed & covariance evolves, one observes impact of changing correlations
• Covariance follows VIX• Allows observation of volatility
impact
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Recipe to Interpret Effects
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• When covariance is frozen & exposures change, one observes pricing impact
• prices detached from VIX• Implies exposure change causes
increase in risk
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Recipe to Interpret Effects
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• Move further out to 99% Value-at-Risk
• Even stronger affect out in the tail
• Exposures dominating
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Recipe to Interpret Effects
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• Monitor difference between 99% and 95% VaR
• Observe tail widening over time• Though VIX muted..??• Exposures increasing risk though
volatility is stable
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Conclusions...What’s Happening is...
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• Current 95% VaR is increasing mildly =>
• Covariance isn’t resulting in the increased risk =>
• VIX volatility signals are subdued =>
• Rising tail risks are due to exposures changes (spreading of difference between 99% & 95% VaR) => Implies increasing probability of event risk
Q for PM’s: WOULD YOU DO ANYTHING?13
Markov Chain-MCStress-Testing
Practical Example14
Correlations of “Stresses” with S&P100
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Drawback? Correlations tie directlyto linear stress-testing
Some Stress-Testing Methodologies
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MARKOV-CHAIN MONTE-CARLO
1) Begins with a risk model, you need some way of estimating correlations across assets. Use when your subject to data starvation for tail estimates
2) Generate synthesized data that matches joint probability distribution between the stress & all risk model factors...simultaneously...to populate the tail
3) Calculate the “beta(s)” between stress & risk model factors:Factor = beta1*stress + beta2*stress2 + others
4) For a given stress (i.e. -30%), compute a value of F given the applied stress & compute return estimate
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Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC)
• Generates sequence of random variables from an “unknown” multi-variate probability density while incorporating the correlations from each variable with every other
• Sequential values tend to be auto-correlated, so delete early trials
• Optimize the search width parameter to achieve ~25% acceptance ratio
• Especially useful for re-populating “tail” density
• However, it requires “trial” density???
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Use “Normal Projection” to create easy trial density
Multivariate Weibull Distributions for Asset Returns: I
Yannick Malevergne & Didier Sornette; Finance Letters, 2004 2(6), 16-32
Consider Bi-Modal Multi-Variate MCMC Example
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Empirical Pairs Plots (500x5) MCMC Replicates (2500x5)
QA: Run Kolmogorov-Smirnov 2-sample test that measures whether “x” and “y” are drawn from same distribution
Close Up
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Empirical Scatter Plot
MCMC Reproduction
EURUSD joint with Risk Model Factors
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MCMCEURUSD
Forex
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Kolmogorov-Smirnov p-value is typically order of ~65%
MCMCJPYUSD Forex
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MCMCWheat Futures
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MCMC Results allow for Non-Linear ST
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Cooliolusions!Stress-Testing is good “Governance”• Should be part of the investment process and requires
cooperation between RM & PM
• Use it to complement traditional risk measures and to deploy your own insights
• Shouldn’t solely be based on naive inputs alone. Let your inner “Michelangelo” out, and be creative with it
FactSet offers complete system..
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…more examples
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