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Extreme events - A Summary [18]

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Bullet points include: Assume Cornish-Fisher (CF4) good estimator of ‘1 in 200’ risk level. Risk = std . (1 + c . kurt) where c = 0.39 at ‘1 in 200’ level. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) focuses just on standard deviation, Independent Components Analysis (ICA) just on kurtosis, blend on both. Analysis based on monthly MSCI World sector relative returns Jun 1996 to Feb 2009 . Sizes of ‘1 in 200’ events potentially underestimated several-fold by PCA, if portfolio built on the basis of ‘meaning’ (e.g. if actively managed)

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