The Turbulence Index: Regime-based Partitioning of Asset Returns
The turbulence index, introduced in the previous blog post, is a measure of statistical unusualness of asset returns popularized by Kritzman and Li1. It pro...
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The Diversification Ratio: Measuring Portfolio Diversification
Continuing the series of blog posts on diversification indicators, I describe in this post a correlation-based measure of portfolio diversification called th...
The Informativeness: Measuring the Homogeneity of a Universe of Assets
In this post, I will describe a measure of the homogeneity of a universe of assets, called the informativeness, introduced by Brockmeier et al.1 in their pap...
Trading Strategy Monitoring: Modeling the PnL as a Geometric Brownian Motion
Systematic trading strategies have the unfortunate habit of exhibiting worse performances in real-life than in backtests, partially due to backtest overfitti...
Correlation Matrices Denoising: Results from Random Matrix Theory
The estimation of empirical correlation matrices in finance is known to be affected by noise, in the form of measurement error, due in part to the short leng...