Attilio Meucci

ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management

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1.

Exercises in Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management (ARPM) with Solutions and Code

Number of pages: 281 Posted: 11 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2016
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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multivariate statistics, invariance quest, estimation theory, factor models, dimension reduction, pricing, VaR, CVaR, robust optimization, estimation risk, copula, cointegration, shrinkage, robustness, Bayesian, Black-Litterman, dynamic strategies

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The Black-Litterman Approach: Original Model and Extensions

Shorter version in, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUANTITATIVE FINANCE, Wiley, 2010
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 08 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2010
Attilio Meucci
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estimation risk, shrinkage estimation, decision theory

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Review of Statistical Arbitrage, Cointegration, and Multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 May 2009 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2010
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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alpha, z-score, signal, half-life, vector-autoregression (VAR), moving average (MA), VARMA, stationary, unit-root, mean-reversion, Levy processes

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Quant Nugget 2: Linear vs. Compounded Returns – Common Pitfalls in Portfolio Management

GARP Risk Professional, pp. 49-51, April 2010
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 09 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2010
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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Managing Diversification

Risk, pp. 74-79, May 2009, Bloomberg Education & Quantitative Research and Education Paper
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2010
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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entropy, mean-diversification frontier, transaction costs, market impact, selection heuristics, systematic risk, idiosyncratic risk, principal component analysis, principal portfolios, r-square, risk contributions, random matrix theory

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'P' Versus 'Q': Differences and Commonalities between the Two Areas of Quantitative Finance

GARP Risk Professional, pp. 47-50, February 2011
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 23 Jan 2011
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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Risk Neutral, Real Measure, Sell-Side, Buy-Side, Asset Pricing, No-Arbitrage, Martingale, Calibration, Estimation, Ito Calculus, PDE, Time-Series, Econometric, Portfolio Theory, Delta-Hedging, Alpha, Statistical Arbitrage, Levy Processes, ARMA, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck, GARCH, Stochastic, Heston

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Fully Flexible Views: Theory and Practice

Fully Flexible Views: Theory and Practice, Risk, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 97-102, October 2008
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2010
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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Black-Litterman, stress-test, scenario analysis, entropy, opinion pooling, Bayesian theory, Kullback-Leibler, Monte Carlo simulations, importance sampling, fat-tails, median, regime shift, normal mixtures, multi-manager, skill, ranking, ordering information, option trading, macro views

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‘The Prayer’ Ten-Step Checklist for Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 May 2011 Last Revised: 14 May 2011
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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Quest for Invariance, Conservation Law of Money, Estimation, Projection, Pricing, Aggregation, Attribution, Evaluation, Optimization, Invariants, Risk Drivers, Random Walk, Levy Process, Autocorrelation, Long Memory, Volatility Clustering, Non-Parametric, Monte Carlo, Panic Copula, Elliptical

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Review of Discrete and Continuous Processes in Finance: Theory and Applications

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2010
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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invariants, random walk, Levy processes, autocorrelation, ARMA, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck, Heston, CIR, jumps, long memory, fractional integration, fractional Brownian motion, volatility clustering, GARCH, stochastic volatility, subordination, real measure, risk-neutral measure, fat tails

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Factors on Demand: Building a Platform for Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers and Traders

Risk, Vol. 23, No.7, p. 84-89
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2010
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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factor models, regression, estimation, attribution, copula, random matrix theory, style analysis, optimal hedging, selection heuristics, GICS industry classification, Monte Carlo, cross-sectional models, time-series models, statistical models, factor analysis

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Beyond Black-Litterman in Practice: A Five-Step Recipe to Input Views on Non-Normal Markets

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Dec 2005
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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opinion pooling, views, copula, skewness, fat tails, Bayesian prior, posterior, Monte Carlo, quantitative portfolio management, asset allocation, CVaR, expected shortfall, Student t copula, non-parametric estimation

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A Short, Comprehensive, Practical Guide to Copulas

GARP Risk Professional, p. 22-27, October 2011
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Sep 2011
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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marginal, Sklar’s theorem, grade, co-monotonic, linear returns, compounded returns, unit cube, scenarios-probabilities, pdf, cdf, quantile, copula-marginal-algorithm

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Risk Budgeting and Diversification Based on Optimized Uncorrelated Factors

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2015
Attilio Meucci, Alberto Santangelo and Romain Deguest
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and World Bank
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Effective Number of Bets, PCA, Diversification Distribution, Marginal Risk Contributions, Procrustes Problem

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A New Breed of Copulas for Risk and Portfolio Management

Risk, Vol. 24, No. 9, pp. 122-126, 2011
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 May 2011 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2011
Attilio Meucci
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panic copula, copula transformations, Archimedean, elliptical, Student t, non-parametric, scenarios-probabilities, empirical distribution, entropy pooling, importance sampling, grade, unit cube

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Quant Nugget 4: Annualization and General Projection of Skewness, Kurtosis and All Summary Statistics

GARP Risk Professional - "The Quant Classroom," pp. 59-63, August 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 14 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2010
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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Square-Root Rule, Higher Moments, Cumulants

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Enhancing the Black-Litterman and Related Approaches: Views and Stress-Test on Risk Factors

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2010
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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scenario analysis, option trading, views on macro factors, non mean-variance optimization

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Visualizing the Propagation of Risk: Square-Root Rule, Covariances and Ellipsoids

GARP Risk Professional, pp. 52-53, February 2010
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 04 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 14 May 2011
Attilio Meucci
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location, dispersion, diffusion, random walk, invariants, i.i.d.

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Beyond Black-Litterman: Views on Non-Normal Markets

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Nov 2005
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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opinion pooling, copula, views, fat tails, Bayesian prior, posterior, Monte Carlo, quantitative portfolio management, asset allocation, skew t distribution, CVaR, expected shortfall

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Review of Dynamic Allocation Strategies: Utility Maximization, Option Replication, Insurance, Drawdown Control, Convex/Concave Management

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2013
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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CPPI, OBPI, drawdown control, option replication, dynamic programming, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, Pontryagin principle, geometric Brownian motion, power utility, constant exposure portfolio, buy-and-hold

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Robust Bayesian Allocation

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 03 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 14 May 2011
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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estimation risk, Bayesian estimation, MCMC, robust optimization, location-dispersion ellipsoid, classical equivalent, shrinkage, global minimum variance portfolio, equally-weighted portfolio, quantitative portfolio management

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Historical Scenarios with Fully Flexible Probabilities

GARP Risk Professional, pp. 47-51, December 2010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 18 May 2011
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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Exponential Smoothing, Kernel Smoothing, Parametric VaR, Monte Carlo Simulations, Stress-Test, Fully Flexible Views, Entropy Pooling, Multivariate Histogram, Empirical Distribution, Dirac Delta, Kullback-Leibler Divergence

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Quant Nugget 3: Common Misconceptions About 'Beta' - Hedging, Estimation and Horizon Effects

GARP's Risk Professional Magazine, June 2010
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 03 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2010
Attilio Meucci
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Factors on Demand, hedging, factors, exposures

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Portfolio Construction and Systematic Trading with Factor Entropy Pooling

Risk Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 56-61, 2014
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 May 2011 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2020
Attilio Meucci, David Ardia and Marcello Colasante
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management, HEC Montreal - Department of Decision Sciences and ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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Trading signals, tactical allocation, Black-Litterman, equilibrium prior, shrinkage, risk management, Entropy Pooling, factor models, inequality views, portfolios from sorts, ranking, Kullback-Leibler

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Linear Factor Models: Theory, Applications and Pitfalls

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2014
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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generalized r-square, fundamental factor models, macroeconomic factor models, factor analysis, regression, random matrix theory, GICS industry classification, cross-sectional models, time-series models, statistical models

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Fully Integrated Liquidity and Market Risk Model

Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 May 2011 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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market impact, optimal execution, order book, crowding, fully flexible probabilities, entropy pooling, marginal contributions

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Quant Nugget 5: Return Calculations for Leveraged Securities and Portfolios

GARP Risk Professional, pp. 40-43, October 2010
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2010
Attilio Meucci
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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Leverage, portfolio weights, swaps, futures, risk-adjusted performance attribution, hierarchical portfolios, conditional probability

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Neither 'Normal' nor 'Lognormal': Modeling Interest Rates Across All Regimes

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 72, No. 3, 2016
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2016
Attilio Meucci and Angela Loregian
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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rates as options, Black rates model, shadow rates, American option, perpetual option, call option, Bachelier process, VAR(1), term structure, yield curve, risk drivers, quest for invariance, projection

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Stress-Testing with Fully Flexible Causal Inputs

Risk, 25, 4, p. 61-65 (2012)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 07 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2012
Attilio Meucci
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Contagion, Bayesian network, entropy pooling, non-Boolean variables, prior distribution, posterior distribution, linear programming, convex programming, dual optimization, 'Fully Flexible'

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Simulations with Exact Means and Covariances

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2010
Attilio Meucci
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matrix Riccati equation, antithetic variables, affine equivariance, affine transformations, copula-marginal factorization, correlation stress-testing

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Fully Flexible Extreme Views

Journal of Risk, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 39-49, Winter 2011/2012
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2012
Attilio Meucci, David Ardia and Simon Keel
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management, HEC Montreal - Department of Decision Sciences and Aeris Capital AG
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Entropy Pooling, Kullback-Leibler, Black-Litterman, VaR, CVaR, grid-probability pair, Monte Carlo, Gauss-Hermite polynomials, Newton-Raphson, kernel estimator

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Dynamic Portfolio Management with Views at Multiple Horizons

Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 274, 1 February 2016, Pages 495-518
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 24 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2017
Attilio Meucci and Marco Nicolosi
ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management and Link Campus University
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dynamic strategies, discretionary allocation, mean-reversion, multivariate Ornstein-Uhleneck, Kullback Leibler divergence, relative entropy, optimal policy, dynamic programming, calculus of variations

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Risk Contributions from Generic User-Defined Factors

The Risk Magazine, pp. 84-88, June 2007
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2010
Attilio Meucci
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risk attribution, marginal contributions, Euler identity, risk factorization, volatility, tracking error, expected shortfall, positive homogeneous risk measures, principal component analysis, regression analysis

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Estimation of Structured T-Copulas

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Apr 2008
Attilio Meucci
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isotropy, shrinkage, structured correlation, estimation-maximization, maximum likelihood, radial generator

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Estimation and Stress-Testing via Time- and Market-Conditional Flexible Probabilities

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2014
Attilio Meucci
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Effective number of scenarios, crisp conditioning, kernel conditioning, ensemble, historical scenarios, full-repricing, exponential smoothing, exponential kernel, Gaussian kernel, Bhattacharyya coefficient, Hellinger distance, UPGMA

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Effective Number of Scenarios in Fully Flexible Probabilities

GARP Risk Professional, pp. 32-35, February 2012
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 01 Feb 2012
Attilio Meucci
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Stress-testing, estimation risk, Entropy Pooling, fuzzy membership, Mahalanobis distance, kernel smoothing, state conditioning, diversification

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Mixing Probabilities, Priors and Kernels via Entropy Pooling

GARP Risk Professional, pp. 32-36, December 2011
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Feb 2012
Attilio Meucci
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Black-Litterman, effective number of scenarios, fuzzy membership, Mahalanobis distance, pseudo-Gaussian kernel, crisp conditioning, exponential decay, machine learning

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Parametric Stress-Testing in Non-Normal Markets via Copula-Marginal Entropy Pooling

Risk Magazine, June 2015
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2015
David Ardia and Attilio Meucci
HEC Montreal - Department of Decision Sciences and ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
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Entropy Pooling, Kullback-Leibler, copula-marginal, stress-test, risk

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Minimum Relative Entropy Inference for Normal and Monte Carlo Distributions

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2020
Marcello Colasante and Attilio Meucci
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Minimum Relative Entropy, Kullback-Leibler, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, Flexible Probabilities, Exponential-Family Distributions

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Risk Parity and Beyond - From Asset Allocation to Risk Allocation Decisions

Posted: 18 Nov 2013
Romain Deguest, Lionel Martellini and Attilio Meucci
World Bank, EDHEC Business School and ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management

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portfolio choice, risk parity, diversification, concentration, principal component analysis