Risk management of precious metals

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Publication Date

11-1-2011

Abstract

This paper examines volatility and correlation dynamics in price returns of gold, silver, platinum and palladium, and explores the corresponding risk management implications for market risk and hedging. Value-at-Risk (VaR) is used to analyze the downside market risk associated with investments in precious metals, and to design optimal risk management strategies. We compute the VaR for major precious metals using the calibrated RiskMetrics, different GARCH models, and the semi-parametric Filtered Historical Simulation approach. The best approach for estimating VaR based on conditional and unconditional statistical tests is documented. The economic importance of the results is highlighted by assessing the daily capital charges from the estimated VaRs. © 2011 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

ISSN

1062-9769

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Volume

51

Issue

4

First Page

435

Last Page

441

Disciplines

Business

Keywords

Conditional volatility, G1, Precious metals, Risk management, Value-at-risk

Scopus ID

80054776550

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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