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Active currency management of international bond portfolios

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This paper focuses on the estimation and implementation of a holistic quantitative yield-curve-based approach to managing multi-currency bond portfolios. The primary task of the presented model is to manage the portfolio risk and return by exploiting inefficiencies in the emergent complexity of both currency and bond markets to generate alpha. Instead of using proxy variables, the expected return and risk parameters are estimated directly using their underlying simplicity and connectivity, period by period at specific moments in time, thus generating time diversification with aggressive risk taking and positioning. As a result, the strategies described in this paper can be classified as both alpha hunters and generators. Copyright Swiss Society for Financial Market Research 2014

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  • Gueorgui Konstantinov, 2014. "Active currency management of international bond portfolios," Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, Springer;Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, vol. 28(1), pages 63-94, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:fmktpm:v:28:y:2014:i:1:p:63-94
    DOI: 10.1007/s11408-013-0223-8
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    Keywords

    Fixed income; Currencies; Portfolio management ; Quantitative models; F31; G1; G15;
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    JEL classification:

    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets

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