Managing downside risk of low-risk anomaly portfolios

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In this paper, we present a novel risk-scaling strategy based on a measure of downside risk and investigate its performance on underlying portfolios that are formed on low-risk anomaly. The downside risk-scaling strategy addresses two challenges of the volatility-scaling strategy, namely, underestimation of and indirect management of downside risk. We demonstrate that our downside risk-scaled strategy improves the unsealed underlying low-risk anomaly strategy as well as outperforms volatility-scaled strategy in terms of risk-adjusted return and various performance metrics that are related to downside events.

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