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Risk Control Through Dynamic Core-Satellite
Portfolios of ETFs: Applications to Absolute
Return Funds and Tactical Asset Allocation

Noël Amenc, Felix Goltz and Adina Grigoriu
The Journal of Alternative Investments Fall 2010, 13 (2) 47-57; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jai.2010.13.2.047
Noël Amenc
is director of EDHEC-Risk Institute and a professor of finance at EDHEC Business School in Nice, France.
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Felix Goltz
is head of applied research in the EDHEC-Risk Institute at EDHEC Business School in Nice, France.
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Asset managers generally focus on diversification or returns prediction to create added value in portfolios of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This article draws on dynamic risk-budgeting techniques to emphasize the importance of risk management when decisions to allocate to ETFs are made. Absolute return funds, in which the low-risk profiles of government-bond ETFs and conditional allocations to riskier equity ETFs can be combined to obtain portfolios that—beyond the natural diversification between stocks and bonds—provide upside potential while protecting investors from downside risk, are an initial application of ETFs to allocation decisions. A second application is risk control of tactical strategies. Dynamic risk budgeting is used to provide risk-controlled exposure—taking the manager’s forecasts as a given—to an asset class. This article shows that, even if the manager is an excellent forecaster, this approach yields intra-horizon and end-of-horizon risk-control benefits considerably greater than those of standard tactical asset allocation.

TOPICS: Portfolio theory, exchange-traded funds and applications, risk management, performance measurement

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Portfolios of ETFs: Applications to Absolute
Return Funds and Tactical Asset Allocation
Noël Amenc, Felix Goltz, Adina Grigoriu
The Journal of Alternative Investments Sep 2010, 13 (2) 47-57; DOI: 10.3905/jai.2010.13.2.047

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Risk Control Through Dynamic Core-Satellite
Portfolios of ETFs: Applications to Absolute
Return Funds and Tactical Asset Allocation
Noël Amenc, Felix Goltz, Adina Grigoriu
The Journal of Alternative Investments Sep 2010, 13 (2) 47-57; DOI: 10.3905/jai.2010.13.2.047
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    • METHOD: DYNAMIC RISK BUDGETING
    • BEYOND DIVERSIFICATION: ABSOLUTE RETURN FUNDS OF ETFs
    • BEYOND TACTICAL BETS: INTEGRATING PREDICTIONS IN A RISK-CONTROLLED FRAMEWORK
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