COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES FOR HEDGING A SECURITIES PORTFOLIO WITH FUTURES

Hedging is one of the most popular strategies of the market risk management. The main purpose of hedging is to reduce the volatility (or variability) of the yield on the portfolio composed of spot assets and hedging tools. The hedging tools may consist of futures contracts, options and off-exchange...

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Main Authors: V. V. Lakshina, K. A. Lapshina
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Language:Russian
Published: Government of the Russian Federation, Financial University 2017-10-01
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Online Access:https://financetp.fa.ru/jour/article/view/292
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description Hedging is one of the most popular strategies of the market risk management. The main purpose of hedging is to reduce the volatility (or variability) of the yield on the portfolio composed of spot assets and hedging tools. The hedging tools may consist of futures contracts, options and off-exchange tools such as forwards and swaps. Hedging strategies using futures contracts are the most simple ones and therefore very common in practice. The purpose of the study is to compare four hedging strategies where a share is a spot asset and a futures contract is a hedging asset. The results of comparison showed the strategy based on the calculation of the internal rate of return to be the most effective. According to the other two criteria, the above strategy and the least squares method turned out to be the best. A correction for heteroscedasticity made with the use of the maximum likelihood method did not improve the hedging performance of shares. This work can be developed in several directions, namely: consideration of option hedging strategies; adding other spot assets, e.g. exchange commodities or currencies, to the portfolio; taking into account the degree of the investor’s risk aversion in calculating the hedge ratio; introduction of transaction costs into the model.
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spelling doaj-art-47e02a75d9c740f5a22d85d56c1bcbbf2025-08-04T13:11:04ZrusGovernment of the Russian Federation, Financial UniversityФинансы: теория и практика2587-56712587-70892017-10-0120510511410.26794/2587-5671-2016-20-5-105-114329COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES FOR HEDGING A SECURITIES PORTFOLIO WITH FUTURESV. V. Lakshina0K. A. Lapshina1HSE UniversityHSE UniversityHedging is one of the most popular strategies of the market risk management. The main purpose of hedging is to reduce the volatility (or variability) of the yield on the portfolio composed of spot assets and hedging tools. The hedging tools may consist of futures contracts, options and off-exchange tools such as forwards and swaps. Hedging strategies using futures contracts are the most simple ones and therefore very common in practice. The purpose of the study is to compare four hedging strategies where a share is a spot asset and a futures contract is a hedging asset. The results of comparison showed the strategy based on the calculation of the internal rate of return to be the most effective. According to the other two criteria, the above strategy and the least squares method turned out to be the best. A correction for heteroscedasticity made with the use of the maximum likelihood method did not improve the hedging performance of shares. This work can be developed in several directions, namely: consideration of option hedging strategies; adding other spot assets, e.g. exchange commodities or currencies, to the portfolio; taking into account the degree of the investor’s risk aversion in calculating the hedge ratio; introduction of transaction costs into the model.https://financetp.fa.ru/jour/article/view/292stock markethedgingfuturesleast squares methodconditional heteroscedasticityhedge ratiohedge effectiveness
spellingShingle V. V. Lakshina
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES FOR HEDGING A SECURITIES PORTFOLIO WITH FUTURES
Финансы: теория и практика
stock market
hedging
futures
least squares method
conditional heteroscedasticity
hedge ratio
hedge effectiveness
title COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES FOR HEDGING A SECURITIES PORTFOLIO WITH FUTURES
title_full COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES FOR HEDGING A SECURITIES PORTFOLIO WITH FUTURES
title_fullStr COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES FOR HEDGING A SECURITIES PORTFOLIO WITH FUTURES
title_full_unstemmed COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES FOR HEDGING A SECURITIES PORTFOLIO WITH FUTURES
title_short COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES FOR HEDGING A SECURITIES PORTFOLIO WITH FUTURES
title_sort comparative analysis of strategies for hedging a securities portfolio with futures
topic stock market
hedging
futures
least squares method
conditional heteroscedasticity
hedge ratio
hedge effectiveness
url https://financetp.fa.ru/jour/article/view/292
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