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Title: Risk Management with Benchmarking

Author(s): Suleyman Basak, Alex Shapiro and Lucie Teplá

Publication Date: August 2005

Keyword(s): benchmarking, investments, shortfall risk, tracking error and value-at-risk

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: Portfolio theory must address the fact that, in reality, portfolio managers are evaluated relative to a benchmark, and therefore adopt risk management practices to account for the benchmark performance. We capture this risk management consideration by allowing a prespecified shortfall from a target benchmark-linked return, consistent with growing interest in such practice. In a dynamic setting, we demonstrate how a risk averse portfolio manager optimally under- or overperforms a target benchmark under different economic conditions, depending on his attitude towards risk and choice of the benchmark. The analysis therefore illustrates how investors can achieve their desired performance profile for funds under management through an appropriate combined choice of the benchmark and money manager. We consider a variety of extensions, and also highlight the ability of our setting to shed some light on documented return patterns across segments of the money management industry.

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Basak, S, Shapiro, A and Teplá, L. 2005. 'Risk Management with Benchmarking'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5187