# Do risk premia explain it all?

evidence from the term structure by Martin D. D. Evans

Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA

Written in English

## Subjects:

• Rate of return -- Forecasting -- Econometric models.,
• Bonds -- Econometric models.,
• Interest rates -- Forecasting -- Econometric models.,
• Risk -- Econometric models.

## Edition Notes

The Physical Object ID Numbers Statement Martin D.D. Evans, Karen K. Lewis. Series NBER working paper series -- working paper no. 3451, Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 3451. Contributions Lewis, Karen K., 1957-, National Bureau of Economic Research. Pagination 31, [8] p. : Number of Pages 31 Open Library OL22438575M

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stock X is undervalued, stock Y is undervalued, stock Z is undervalued. variation in futures risk premia but does not di§erentiate between spot and term premia in futures markets. Instruments known to induce time variation in commodity futures risk premia other than the basis include hedging pressure and momentum.

3 In addition to these instruments, or characteristics, commodity risk premia have been related to. Risk premia strategies target absolute returns through long-short positions across various factors and asset classes. As such, these rules-based strategies in many ways resemble and rival hedge funds, though risk premia products tend Do risk premia explain it all?

book be much cheaper and more transparent than hedge funds. Determinants of Security Risk Premia. Not all atomic securities offer risk Do risk premia explain it all? book (ev/fv>1). Some offer risk discounts (ev/fv1). But all are risky. Thus there is not a simple relationship between risk and expected return.

This is true not only for atomic securities, but also for more traditional ones. Risk premia strategies can take various forms, including long-only stances – known as smart beta – as well as long-short approaches.

These are collectively known as quantitative investment strategies, though they are implemented in different ways. Risk premia factors are sources of return that can span several asset classes and which explain why some investments outperform others. risk premia”—as a way to achieve those same objectives.

In this paper, we seek to introduce the concept of alternative risk premia, explain how investors can access them, and present the potential benefits and drawbacks associated with them. Overview The concept underlying alternative risk premia. alternative risk premia designate all the risk premia other than a long exposure to equities and bonds.

Contrary to traditional risk premia, whose risk/return pro le is relatively easy to un-derstand, the behavior of alternative risk premia is more heterogeneous. In fact, they cover. For an individual, a risk premium is the minimum amount of money by which the expected return on a risky asset (such as stock) must exceed the known return on a risk-free asset (such as a Treasury bond) in order to induce an individual to hold the risky asset rather than the risk-free asset.

It is positive if the person is risk it is the minimum willingness to accept compensation. Well-known risk premia within the equity class include the equity risk premium, as well as Value, Small Cap, and Momentum. Other asset classes, including fixed income, real estate, and commodities, also demand risk premia above the risk-free rate.

Similar to equities, there are distinct risk premia within those asset classes. “This is all relevant to risk premia investing because we look for those strategies that do not correlate in the tails. When they draw down, they don’t all draw down together,” Seager says. The risk-free rate is merely hypothetical, as all investments have some risk of loss.

However, the T-bill rate is a good measure since they are very liquid assets, easy to. I find that habit persistence has almost no impact on the mean or standard deviation of either real or nominal risk premia.

With ordinal-certainty-equivalent preferences, the mean and standard deviations of risk premia are sensitive to the intertemporal elasticity of substitution; however, even extreme values of this variable do not allow.

2 De ning risk premia, risk factors and market anoma-lies In this section, we review the di erent concepts related to alternative risk premia. More precisely, we clarify the de nition of \risk premium" and explore the relationship between risk premia and risk factors.

We also illustrate the blurred boundary between risk premia and market anomalies. A non-exhaustive list of risk premia is presented to the right in Exhibit 1. These risk premia all share some basic properties.

They are all well known, investable, scalable and well documented in both academic and practitioner literature, and possess a sound rationale with respect to the returns they have historically provided.

Beyond the best. “Risk-premia investing [means to] identify, analyse, build and develop strategies that in some way improve risk-adjusted returns There is no formal definition of what constitutes a risk premium beyond the concept that investors should reap a reward for bearing some kind of risk we have decided that a risk premium has: 1.

Demonstrated. In this paper we provide an overview of the risk premia concept and focus on a set of liquid “alternative” (or non-traditional) risk premia in particular. We cover the following topics: Identifying traditional risk premia (how risk premia can be defined and the common exposures for investors).

In practice, we have found that the providers of combined alternative risk premia strategies do make active choices. To illustrate this, Figure 3 shows the beta of ten real-life alternative risk premia strategies to trend-following risk premia, using simple regressions.

We have chosen to use trend-following risk premia as a basis for this. Systematic risk premia strategies exist in all asset classes and across a number of investment styles. These strategies have historically been the domain of hedge funds and other active investors.

That relationship holds across all 13 of our alternative risk premia: using a hypothetical backtest, based on returns sincethe highest correlation between any two risk premia was (momentum in fixed income versus carry in fixed income, and carry in equities versus value in equities); while many pairs exhibited correlations as low as.

Low risk premia for emerging market assets are persistent. Yet, the world is awash with turmoil and uncertainty. How do we explain this seeming contradiction. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) usually concerns itself with bonds, bond markets, and bond yields. But a report issued by BIS this month brings to mind simply Bond.

James Bond. In a practical sense, being long risk premia means buying and holding assets that are exposed to various risk factors.

A risk factor is simply a class of risks that explain (or partially explain) the reward associated with buying and holding an asset. One model of common risk.

ing model by including two additional risk-premia factors: small-market capitalization stocks versus large (small-cap premium), and high book-to-market ratio minus low (value premium).

Many other risk premia have been identified across several asset classes, and today some of the most widely utilized risk premia include value, carry, and momentum.

To represent the systematic alternative risk premia option, we use the long-term return target for our Systematic Alternative Risk Premia (SARP) strategy between a 7% and 9% excess return, 7 apply an average volatility expectation of 11%, and assume that historical cross-correlations with other asset classes are indicative of future averages.

Risk premia strategies aim to profit from risk premiums. Lemperiere et al. describe a positive linear relationship between the Sharpe ratio of risk premia strategies and their negative skewness. It provides extensive evidence that risk premium is indeed strongly correlated with the skewness of a strategy, not only in the equity world but also.

This equation suggests that the risk premium will be of greater magnitude if there is greater uncertainty about the economy and/or federal funds rate. More importantly, it suggests that the correlation, $$\rho_{\sigma_Y, \sigma_r}$$, between economic activity and the federal funds rate will determine the sign of the risk premia.

In the world of alternative risk premia, style premia have dominated. But they do have limitations. Investors should consider using a wider variety of strategies. Style premia strategies are the most well-known and popular of the alternative risk premia (ARP) strategies.