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9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 1 Tactical Asset Allocation session 5 Andrei Simonov

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 2 Agenda What is tactical asset allocation? Mean-variance perspective on TAA and SAA Predictability –January dummy –Business cycle variables –Explaining risk premia: US, World, Sweden. –Currency risk premia –Caveats: data snooping, statistical issues.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 3 What is TAA? Exists since early-to-mid- 80-ies. By now $ bln are under management by TAA managers A TAA managers’s investment objective is to obtain better-than-expected return with (possibly) lower-than- benchmark volatility by forecasting the returns of two or more asset classes and varying asset class exposure in systematic manner (Phillips, Rogers & Capaldi, 1996) Can TAA funds be interpreted as stand-alone asset class?

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 4 Conditioning Information and Portfolio Analysis Er Vol Add conditioning information and weights change through time. Frontier shifts.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 5 Optimal portfolio for risk-averse investor

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 6 Equilibrium and TAA Let us assume that there exists long-term expected returns vector e. However, due to predictability of asset returns, e  E(R)

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 7 How to do it? We need a model that explains the connection between today’s variables and tomorrow returns. Candidates: economic business cycle variables and Jan. Effect.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 8 Example: Incredible January Effect Excess returns associated with small firms w.r.t. Large-cap stocks Ritter: Tax effect. Is it so? Incredibly Shrinking January Effect (William J. Bernstein ).

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 9 Example: dividend yield May not be sustained out of sample

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 10 Risk and return over the business cycle

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 11 Evaluation of Recent Recession In July 2000, the Yield Curve inverted forecasting recession to begin in June Official NBER Peak is March 2001 (Yield Curve within one quarter accurate). In March 2001, the Yield Curve returned to normal forecasting the end of the recession in November On July 17, 2003 the NBER announced the official end of the recession was November 2001.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 12 Exhibit 1 Next couple of slides are due to Cam Harvey

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 13 Exhibit 2

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 14 Yield Curve Inverts Before Last Six Recessions (5-year Treasury note minus 3-month Treasury bill yield-secondary) % Real annual GDP growth Yield curve Recession Correct 2 Recessions Correct Recession Correct Yield curve accurate in recent recession Recession Correct Annual GDP growth or Yield Curve % Data though April 11, 2006 Source: Campbell R. Harvey. Recent flattening

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 15 Yield Curve Inverts Before Last Six Recessions (5-year Treasury note minus 3-month Treasury bill yield – constant maturity) % Real annual GDP growth Yield curve Recession Correct 2 Recessions Correct Recession Correct Yield curve accurate in recent recession Recession Correct Annual GDP growth or Yield Curve % Data though April 11, 2006 Source: Campbell R. Harvey. Recent flattening

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 16 Recent Annualized One-Quarter GDP Growth (10-year and 5-year Yield Curves-secondary market) % Real annualized one-quarter GDP growth Annualized 1-quarter GDP growth Both curves invert 2000Q3 10-year 5-year Yield curve Data though April 11, 2006

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 17 Recent Annualized One-Quarter GDP Growth (10-year and 5-year Yield Curves-constant maturity) % Real annualized one-quarter GDP growth Annualized 1-quarter GDP growth Both curves invert 2000Q3 10-year 5-year Yield curve Data though April 2006

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 18 What shall we expect now?

May 2007: Practically flat 9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 19

August /5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 20

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 21 Current Situation: Economic growth The economy expanded at an annual pace of 4.1%, the most in more than a year, according to the median estimate of 81 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. The Commerce Department last month calculated the growth rate at 3.4%. But the outlook for the second half of 2007 has soured in recent weeks as the subprime mortgage crisis has restricted access to credit. The Federal Reserve this month said risks to growth had ``increased appreciably'' and economists at JPMorgan and Lehman are among those that have reduced forecasts. There are growing signs of a housing slowdown; new home sales down, housing prices down, and homeowners with ARMs facing much higher interest rates.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 22 Current Situation Inflation perceptions. The long-term rate is a combination of expected inflation, expected real interest rates and an inflation risk factor. Long-term inflation expectations have decreased mainly due to the glut of cheap labor resulting from globalization.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 23 Current Situation Strong buying of long-term bonds by foreigners. For the past few years, strong buying by Asian central banks have pushed up the Treasury bond prices. However, there is a debate as to whether this has had a large impact on bond prices. In addition, this buying has flattened out recently. A recent Fed study estimated that the foreign buying pushed yields down by 150bp. Subprime crisis does not end buying of T-debt by foreigners. Demand for 5yr TB last week was very high.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 24 Current Situation Hedge funds. There has been a recent increase in demand for U.S. bonds from the Caribbean area indicating hedge fund activity. With long-rates above short rates, many managers do “carry trades” (borrow short-term and buy long-term bonds hoping the relation between rates remains stable). As the term structure flattens, many of these managers increase their leverage which means more buying pressure on the long-term bonds.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 25 Current Situation Demographic forces. As the population ages, more money is allocated into fixed income and long-term bond yields may decrease. Inflation risk. The long-rate rates contain expected inflation, expected real rates and an inflation risk factor. It is widely perceived that inflation risk (an unexpected episode of inflation turbulence) has decreased.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 26 Annual Real Economic Growth After Yield Curve Inversions

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 27 Stock Returns and U.S. Yield Curve Average Monthly Returns in % Data through November 2000

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 28 Average Monthly Stock Returns After Yield Curve Inversions Equally weighted Value weighted Based on 19 countries.

Trader’s calendar (from thestreet.com) 9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 29 Time (EST) Indicator (click for definition) Source (click for press release) ActualForecast Previous (revised) Previous (original) Monday, May 21 No releases. Tuesday, May 22 9 a.m. ICSC-UBS Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot for the week ended May 19 International Council of Shopping Centers and UBS -1.5%n.a.+0.8% 9 a.m. Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index for the week ended May 19, vs. April Redbook Research+2.0%n.a.+2.2%+2.5%* Wednesday, May 23 9 a.m. Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ended May Market Composite Index Mortgage Bankers Association --n.a Purchase Index--n.a a.m. Consumer Comfort Index for the week ended May 20 ABC News and Washington Post--n.a.---7 Thursday, May 24 8:30 a.m. Initial Jobless Claims for the week ended May 19 Labor Department , ,000 Four-week average--n.a ,000 8:30 a.m. Durable goods orders for April Census Bureau %--+3.7% Ex-transportation--n.a % 10 a.m. New home sales for AprilCensus Bureau--.860M--.858M 2:30 p.m. Treasury auction announcement Bureau of the Public Debt The Treasury announces the size of its next monthly two-year note auction, next Tuesday. Friday, May a.m. Existing Home Sales for AprilNational Association of Realtors--6.10M--6.12M 10:30 a.m. Weekly Leading Index for the week ended May 18Economic Cycle Research Institute--n.a %

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 30 What variables matter? Methodology: 1. Exploratory: regressing returns at t on informational variables at t-1 2. ”Correct one”: first finding economic risk premia (a la APT) and then regressing it on informational variables at t-1

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 31 Do informational variables have predictive ability? Info variables: –January dummy –Past excess return on Equally weighted CRSP index –Spread between 1 and 3 mo T- bills –Dividend yield –Spread between Baa and Aaa corporate bonds –1-mo T-bill rate

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 32 Here how it looks like...

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 33 Performance & Business Cycle Data through June 2002

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 34 Performance & Business Cycle (2) Data through June 2002

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 35 Performance & Business Cycle (3) Data through June 2002

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation Performance & Business Cycle (4) Data through June 2002

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 37 How important are global factors? Based on Ferson-Harvey RFS95 Question here is: what is more important, local or global factors for predictability of asset returns. Global Informational variables: : ”old friends”: 1 mo t-bill, div. Yield on MSCI World index, spread between 10yr and 3 mo T- bills, Eurodollar/US treasury spread, lagged market return, January dummy. Local informational variables: Country x div. Yield, 30-day t- bill rate, term spread, lagged MSCI country x market return.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 38 So, what matters? ”Global only” model is already good enough Adding local factors increases explanatory power of the model

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 39 Changes in  vs changes in risk premium Only 2-4% of variation is due to beta’s.

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 40 Sweden (Robertsson, 2000):

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 41 What about currency risk premium? Currency specificiyy: zero-sum game Dumas-Solnik: currency risk premia exists. It is time-varying and predictable

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 42 Caveats: Data snooping –Foster, Smith and Whaley (98): by choosing to max R2 via choice of instruments one can get significance when there is none. –Not clear how to use as list of instruments already exists... In-sample vs. Out-of-sample validation

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 43 Caveats(2) Statistical biases: autocorrelation, heteroscedastisity (via Monte-Carlo simulations). Non-normality, excess skewness and kurtosis

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 44 How to deal with statistical issues? Bootstrap methodology: –Form empirical distribution of returns –Generate time series of returns (length T). –Perform the regression of interest –See how many times there exists significance on level .

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 45 U.S. Risk Premium Survey Background Graham/Harvey: Survey CFOs every quarter Q through Q (15 quarters) Current survey attracts about 400 respondents Why CFOs? –We know from previous surveys and interviews that the CFOs use the risk premium for their capital budgeting –Hence, they have thought hard about risk premium –Should not be biased the way that analyst forecasts might be

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 46 U.S. Risk Premium One-Year Premium One-year risk premium variable. Currently, about 7%

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 47 U.S. Risk Premium Ten-Year Premium Ten-year risk premium is stable. Currently, about 3.7%

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 48 U.S. Risk Premium Momentum in Expectations for 1-year Premium

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 49 U.S. Risk Premium Extreme Returns Cause Disagreement

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 50 U.S. Risk Premium Positive Relation Between Disagreement and Expected 10-year Returns

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 51 U.S. Risk Premium Example Confidence Intervals: September 16, 2002

9/5/2015 Tactical Asset Allocation 52 Conclusion: TAA can be an important tool in asset allocation methodology. It is based on time variation of real economic risk premia. Selection of predictors is important. We are still in ”top-down” paradigm. Devil is in the details= implementation matters.