Díaz, Antonio González, María de la O Navarro, Eliseo Skinner, Frank S.
Abstract
This paper tests the effectiveness of contingent immunization, a stop loss strategy that allows portfolio managers to take advantage of their ability to forecast interest rate movements as long as their forecasts are successful, but switches to a pure immunization strategy should the stop loss limit be encountered. This study uses actual daily transactions in the Spanish Treasury market covering the period 1993-2003 and uses performance measures that accounts for skewness and kurtosis as well as mean variance. The main result of this paper is that contingent immunization provides excellent performance despite its simplicity.
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Volume (Year): 33 (2009) Issue (Month): 10 (October) Pages: 1874-1883 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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