scholarly journals Stochastic NPV Based vs Stochastic LCOE Based Power Portfolio Selection Under Uncertainty

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 3677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Mari
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Selection ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Optimal Portfolios ◽  
Levelized Cost Of Electricity ◽  
Power Sources

This paper investigates the problem of power portfolio selection under uncertainty using two different metrics, namely the stochastic Net Present Value (NPV) and the stochastic Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE). In the first metric, stochastic revenues, as well as stochastic costs incurred during the whole lifetime of power plants, are taken into account. The second metric is based on stochastic costs only. This means that revenues deriving from selling electricity in power markets over long-term horizons play an important role in determining optimal portfolios under the stochastic NPV metric, but they have no impact on optimal portfolios under the stochastic LCOE metric. Uncertainty arising from unpredictable movements of electricity market prices, fossil fuels, and nuclear fuel prices is considered. Moreover, stochastic CO 2 costs are included into the analysis. The aim of this study was to examine in what circumstances efficient NPV-based portfolios differ in a significant way from efficient LCOE-based portfolios. The portfolio selection is performed using two different risk measures, namely the standard deviation and the Conditional Value at Risk Deviation (CVaR) deviation. The proposed methodology can be used as a powerful tool of analysis for planning profitable investments in new generating technologies paying attention to risk reducing strategies through power sources diversification.

scholarly journals Problem-driven scenario generation: an analytical approach for stochastic programs with tail risk measure

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Fairbrother ◽  
Amanda Turner ◽  
Stein W. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Selection ◽  
Random Vector ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Risk Measure ◽  
Monte Carlo Sampling ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Scenario Generation ◽  
Tail Risk ◽  
Stochastic Programs

AbstractScenario generation is the construction of a discrete random vector to represent parameters of uncertain values in a stochastic program. Most approaches to scenario generation are distribution-driven, that is, they attempt to construct a random vector which captures well in a probabilistic sense the uncertainty. On the other hand, a problem-driven approach may be able to exploit the structure of a problem to provide a more concise representation of the uncertainty. In this paper we propose an analytic approach to problem-driven scenario generation. This approach applies to stochastic programs where a tail risk measure, such as conditional value-at-risk, is applied to a loss function. Since tail risk measures only depend on the upper tail of a distribution, standard methods of scenario generation, which typically spread their scenarios evenly across the support of the random vector, struggle to adequately represent tail risk. Our scenario generation approach works by targeting the construction of scenarios in areas of the distribution corresponding to the tails of the loss distributions. We provide conditions under which our approach is consistent with sampling, and as proof-of-concept demonstrate how our approach could be applied to two classes of problem, namely network design and portfolio selection. Numerical tests on the portfolio selection problem demonstrate that our approach yields better and more stable solutions compared to standard Monte Carlo sampling.

Systemic Risk-Driven Portfolio Selection

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agostino Capponi ◽  
Alexey Rubtsov
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Portfolio Selection ◽  
Systemic Risk ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
The Face ◽  
Financial Index ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

How can we construct portfolios that perform well in the face of systemic events? The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic have highlighted the importance of accounting for extreme form of risks. In “Systemic Risk-Driven Portfolio Selection,” Capponi and Rubtsov investigate the design of portfolios that trade off tail risk and expected growth of the investment. The authors show how two well-known risk measures, the value-at-risk and the conditional value-at-risk, can be used to construct portfolios that perform well in the face of systemic events. The paper uses U.S. stock data from the S&P500 Financials Index and Canadian stock data from the S&P/TSX Capped Financial Index, and it demonstrates that portfolios accounting for systemic risk attain higher risk-adjusted expected returns, compared with well-known benchmark portfolio criteria, during times of market downturn.

scholarly journals Cryptocurrency Portfolio Selection—A Multicriteria Approach

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
pp. 1677
Author(s):  
Zdravka Aljinović ◽  
Branka Marasović ◽  
Tea Šestanović
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Portfolio Selection ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Efficient Frontier ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Optimal Portfolios ◽  
Promethee Ii ◽  
Proposed Model

This paper proposes the PROMETHEE II based multicriteria approach for cryptocurrency portfolio selection. Such an approach allows considering a number of variables important for cryptocurrencies rather than limiting them to the commonly employed return and risk. The proposed multiobjective decision making model gives the best cryptocurrency portfolio considering the daily return, standard deviation, value-at-risk, conditional value-at-risk, volume, market capitalization and attractiveness of nine cryptocurrencies from January 2017 to February 2020. The optimal portfolios are calculated at the first of each month by taking the previous 6 months of daily data for the calculations yielding with 32 optimal portfolios in 32 successive months. The out-of-sample performances of the proposed model are compared with five commonly used optimal portfolio models, i.e., naïve portfolio, two mean-variance models (in the middle and at the end of the efficient frontier), maximum Sharpe ratio and the middle of the mean-CVaR (conditional value-at-risk) efficient frontier, based on the average return, standard deviation and VaR (value-at-risk) of the returns in the next 30 days and the return in the next trading day for all portfolios on 32 dates. The proposed model wins against all other models according to all observed indicators, with the winnings spanning from 50% up to 94%, proving the benefits of employing more criteria and the appropriate multicriteria approach in the cryptocurrency portfolio selection process.

scholarly journals Multi-stage stochastic model in portfolio selection problem

Filomat ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 991-1001
Author(s):  
Shokoofeh Banihashemi ◽  
Ali Azarpour ◽  
Marziye Kaveh
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Portfolio Selection ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Risk Measure ◽  
Selection Problem ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Expected Return ◽  
Portfolio Selection Problem ◽  
Multi Stage

This paper is a novel work of portfolio-selection problem solving using multi objective model considering four parameters, Expected return, downside beta coefficient, semivariance and conditional value at risk at a specified confidence level. Multi-period models can be defined as stochastic models. Early studies on portfolio selection developed using variance as a risk measure; although, theories and practices revealed that variance, considering its downsides, is not a desirable risk measure. To increase accuracy and overcoming negative aspects of variance, downside risk measures like semivarinace, downside beta covariance, value at risk and conditional value at risk was other risk measures that replaced in models. These risk measures all have advantages over variance and previous works using these parameters have shown improvements in the best portfolio selection. Purposed models are solved using genetic algorithm and for the topic completion, numerical example and plots to measure the performance of model in four dimensions are provided.

scholarly journals Early warning of systemic risk in global banking: eigen-pair R number for financial contagion and market price-based methods

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheri Markose ◽  
Simone Giansante ◽  
Nicolas A. Eterovic ◽  
Mateusz Gatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Early Warning ◽  
Systemic Risk ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Market Price ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Centrality Measures ◽  
Global Banking ◽  
Pair Method

AbstractWe analyse systemic risk in the core global banking system using a new network-based spectral eigen-pair method, which treats network failure as a dynamical system stability problem. This is compared with market price-based Systemic Risk Indexes, viz. Marginal Expected Shortfall, Delta Conditional Value-at-Risk, and Conditional Capital Shortfall Measure of Systemic Risk in a cross-border setting. Unlike paradoxical market price based risk measures, which underestimate risk during periods of asset price booms, the eigen-pair method based on bilateral balance sheet data gives early-warning of instability in terms of the tipping point that is analogous to the R number in epidemic models. For this regulatory capital thresholds are used. Furthermore, network centrality measures identify systemically important and vulnerable banking systems. Market price-based SRIs are contemporaneous with the crisis and they are found to covary with risk measures like VaR and betas.

scholarly journals Portfolio Optimization Constrained by Performance Attribution

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Yuan Hu ◽  
W. Brent Lindquist ◽  
Svetlozar T. Rachev
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Optimization ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Risk Measure ◽  
Selection Effect ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Performance Attribution ◽  
Dow Jones Industrial Average

This paper investigates performance attribution measures as a basis for constraining portfolio optimization. We employ optimizations that minimize conditional value-at-risk and investigate two performance attributes, asset allocation (AA) and the selection effect (SE), as constraints on asset weights. The test portfolio consists of stocks from the Dow Jones Industrial Average index. Values for the performance attributes are established relative to two benchmarks, equi-weighted and price-weighted portfolios of the same stocks. Performance of the optimized portfolios is judged using comparisons of cumulative price and the risk-measures: maximum drawdown, Sharpe ratio, Sortino–Satchell ratio and Rachev ratio. The results suggest that achieving SE performance thresholds requires larger turnover values than that required for achieving comparable AA thresholds. The results also suggest a positive role in price and risk-measure performance for the imposition of constraints on AA and SE.

Risk Measures for Natural Resource Management: Description, Simulation Testing, and R Code With Fisheries Examples

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Andrew Sethi ◽  
Mike Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Risk Measure ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Resource Systems

Abstract Traditional measures that quantify variation in natural resource systems include both upside and downside deviations as contributing to variability, such as standard deviation or the coefficient of variation. Here we introduce three risk measures from investment theory, which quantify variability in natural resource systems by analyzing either upside or downside outcomes and typical or extreme outcomes separately: semideviation, conditional value-at-risk, and probability of ruin. Risk measures can be custom tailored to frame variability as a performance measure in terms directly meaningful to specific management objectives, such as presenting risk as harvest expected in an extreme bad year, or by characterizing risk as the probability of fishery escapement falling below a prescribed threshold. In this paper, we present formulae, empirical examples from commercial fisheries, and R code to calculate three risk measures. In addition, we evaluated risk measure performance with simulated data, and we found that risk measures can provide unbiased estimates at small sample sizes. By decomposing complex variability into quantitative metrics, we envision risk measures to be useful across a range of wildlife management scenarios, including policy decision analyses, comparative analyses across systems, and tracking the state of natural resource systems through time.

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