Portfolio Insurance Strategies: OBPI Versus CPPI

University of CERGY Working Paper No. 2001-30

GREQAM Working Paper

20 Pages Posted: 21 Feb 2002 Last revised: 24 Jan 2014

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Philippe Bertrand

AMGSM-IAE Aix-en-Provence, Aix Marseille University, CERGAM; KEDGE Business School

Jean-Luc Prigent

University of Cergy-Pontoise - ThEMA

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Date Written: December 1, 2001

Abstract

We compare performances of the two standard portfolio insurance methods: the Option Based Portfolio Insurance (OBPI) and the Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance (CPPI). First we examine basic properties of these two strategies and compare them by means of various criteria: comparison of their payoffs, possible property of stochastic dominance, expectations, variances, skewness and kurtosis of their returns, and some of the quantiles of their returns. We prove that the OBPI method can be analyzed as a kind of CPPI where the multiple is allowed to vary. We then study the properties of this varying multiple.

In a second section, we analyze more deeply both method's dynamic properties. We turn our attention to the dynamics management involved by these two strategies. Although the pure OBPI do not require any management by the buyer (if the put or call option is available on the market), we can calculate the "greeks" of its call part. We derive the "greeks" of the CPPI and show the very different nature of the dynamic properties of the two strategies.

Keywords: Portfolio Insurance, OBPI, CPPI

JEL Classification: G11

Suggested Citation

Bertrand, Philippe and Prigent, Jean-Luc, Portfolio Insurance Strategies: OBPI Versus CPPI (December 1, 2001). University of CERGY Working Paper No. 2001-30, GREQAM Working Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=299688 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.299688

Philippe Bertrand

AMGSM-IAE Aix-en-Provence, Aix Marseille University, CERGAM ( email )

Chemin de la Quille - Puyricard
Aix en Provence, 13089
France

KEDGE Business School ( email )

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Marseille, PACA 13288
France

Jean-Luc Prigent (Contact Author)

University of Cergy-Pontoise - ThEMA ( email )

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F-95011 Cergy CEDEX
France

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