Time series momentum and volatility scaling

Abby Y. Kim, Yiuman Tse and John K. Wald

Journal of Financial Markets, 2016, vol. 30, issue C, 103-124

Abstract: Moskowitz, Ooi, and Pedersen (2012) show that time series momentum delivers a large and significant alpha for a diversified portfolio of international futures contracts. We find that their results are largely driven by volatility-scaling returns (or the so-called risk parity approach to asset allocation) rather than by time series momentum. Without scaling by volatility, time series momentum and a buy-and-hold strategy offer similar cumulative returns, and their alphas are not significantly different. This similarity holds for most sectors and for a combined portfolio of futures contracts. Cross-sectional momentum also offers a higher (similar) alpha than unscaled (scaled) time series momentum.

Keywords: Momentum; Futures pricing; International asset allocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G13 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2016.05.003

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