Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance Strategies in Contagious Markets

The paper has been presented at the 9th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, New York, at VCMF 2016, Vienna, and at the 21st International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vienna. The final version of the paper is published in Quantitative Finance Vol. 18, Iss. 2, 2018.

37 Pages Posted: 15 Dec 2017 Last revised: 9 Feb 2018

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Alice Buccioli

Deloitte | Risk Advisory, Financial Risk Management

Thomas Kokholm

School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University

Date Written: February 2, 2017

Abstract

CPPI strategies are popular as they allow to gear up the upside potential of a stock index while limiting its downside risk. From the issuer’s perspective it is important to adequately assess the risks associated with the CPPI, both in order to charge the correct “gap” fee and for risk management. The literature on CPPI modeling typically assumes diffusive or Lévy-driven dynamics for the risky asset underlying the strategy. In either case the self-contagious nature of asset prices is not taken into account. In order to account for contagion while preserving analytical tractability, we introduce self-exciting jumps in the underlying dynamics via Hawkes processes. Within this framework we derive the loss probability when trading is performed continuously. Moreover, we estimate measures of the risk involved in the practical implementation of discrete-time rebalancing rules governing the CPPI product. When rebalancing is performed on a frequency less than weekly, failing to take contagion into account will significantly underestimate the risks of the CPPI. Finally, in order to mimic a situation with low liquidity, we impose a daily trading cap on the risky asset and find that the Hawkes process driven models give rise to the highest risk measures even under daily rebalancing.

Keywords: CPPI, self-contagion, Hawkes processes, gap risk, liquidity, risk measures

JEL Classification: G01, G11, G22

Suggested Citation

Buccioli, Alice and Kokholm, Thomas, Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance Strategies in Contagious Markets (February 2, 2017). The paper has been presented at the 9th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, New York, at VCMF 2016, Vienna, and at the 21st International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vienna. The final version of the paper is published in Quantitative Finance Vol. 18, Iss. 2, 2018., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3087136 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3087136

Alice Buccioli

Deloitte | Risk Advisory, Financial Risk Management ( email )

Copenhagen
Denmark

Thomas Kokholm (Contact Author)

School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University ( email )

Fuglesangs Allé 4
Aarhus, DK-8210
Denmark

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