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Risk parity and volatility timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/68847 Risk parity and volatility timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Ward, Mike ichelp@gibs.co.za Gray, Peter John UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2018. Risk parity has been described as a relatively new approach to portfolio creation that has been gaining popularity (Sullivan, 2010). Under risk parity, the efficient portfolio is created by weighting assets by their risk rather than by their market value. The resulting risk parity portfolio is then combined with either borrowing or lending the risk-free asset to achieve a desired mean-variance outcome. Volatility-timing is a market timing technique that seeks to exploit a weak relationship between short-term volatility and short-term return to improve the mean-variance outcome of a portfolio. The study examined the effect of volatility-timing on a risk parity portfolio to document the effect on the JSE. This serves to broaden the understanding of volatility timing and explore practical investment opportunities. A risk parity portfolio was created using index funds over the last 18 years to compare performance with a 60/40 benchmark. In addition, differing methods of leverage application were explored, including a volatility-timing method to identify an optimal leverage methodology. Risk parity was found to provide no risk-adjusted benefits to portfolio creation over the 60/40 portfolio. In addition, the approach to applying leverage, including a volatility-timed approach, provided no opportunity to capture excess returns. dm2019 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA 2019-04-04T10:16:58Z 2019-04-04T10:16:58Z 30-Mar-19 2018 Mini Dissertation Gray, PJ 2018, Risk parity and volatility timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68847> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68847 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
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| title | Risk parity and volatility timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange |
| title_full | Risk parity and volatility timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Risk parity and volatility timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange |
| title_short | Risk parity and volatility timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange |
| title_sort | risk parity and volatility timing on the johannesburg stock exchange |
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| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68847 |