On the correlation between commodity and equity returns: Implications for portfolio allocation

被引：56
作者：
Lombardi, Marco J. [1 ]
Ravazzolo, Francesco [2 ,3 ]
机构：
[1] Bank Int Settlements, Basel, Switzerland
[2] Free Univ Bozen Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
[3] BI Norwegian Business Sch, Oslo, Norway
来源：
JOURNAL OF COMMODITY MARKETS | 2016年 / 2卷 / 01期
关键词：
Commodity prices; Equity prices; Correlation; Bayesian DCC; Multi asset class investment;
D O I：
10.1016/j.jcomm.2016.07.005
中图分类号：
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号：
0202 ;
摘要：
In recent years several commentators hinted at an increase of the correlation between equity and commodity returns, blaming for that surging investment in commodity-related products. This paper investigates such claims by looking at various measures of correlation, and assesses what are the implications of this for asset allocation. We develop a time-varying Bayesian Dynamic Conditional Correlation model and find that joint modelling commodity and equity prices produces accurate forecasts, which lead to benefits in portfolio allocation. This, however, comes at the price of higher volatility. Therefore, the popular view that commodities are to be included in investment portfolio as hedging device is not grounded. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码：45 / 57
页数：13
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