Abstract
This paper proposes a model of delegated portfolio management, in which professional fund managers face a value-at-risk (VaR) constraint. We show that the existence of the VaR constraint impairs the optimal risk sharing in both the trading and delegation stages. As a result, the VaR constraint leads household investors to take excessive risk and may cause the prices of fundamentally uncorrelated assets to be correlated.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 101895 |
| Journal | Finance Research Letters |
| Volume | 42 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Contagion
- Delegated portfolio management
- VaR constraint