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Regime Shifts: Implications for Dynamic Strategies

Year: 2012
Type: preprint
Abstract: Regime shifts present significant challenges for investors because they cause performance to depart significantly from the ranges implied by long-term averages of means and covariances. But regime shifts also present opportunities for gain. The authors show how to apply Markov-switching models to forecast regimes in market turbulence, inflation, and economic growth. They found that a dynamic process outperformed static asset allocation in backtests, especially for investors who seek to avoid large losses.
Language: English
Subfield: Finance
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1589602626
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