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An EDHEC Risk & Asset Management Research Centre Publication Assessing the Quality of Stock Market Indices: Requirements for Asset Allocation and Performance Measurement Commissioned by: Sponsored by: September 2006 EDHEC is one of the top five business schools in France and was ranked 12th in the Financial Times Masters in Management Rankings 2005 owing to the high quality of its academic staff (over 100 permanent lecturers from France and abroad) and its privileged relationship with professionals that the school has been developing since it was established in 1906. EDHEC Business School has decided to draw on its extensive knowledge of the professional environment and has therefore concentrated its research on themes that satisfy the needs of professionals. EDHEC pursues an active research policy in the field of finance. Its “Risk and Asset Management Research Centre” carries out numerous research programmes in the areas of asset allocation and risk management in both the traditional and alternative investment universes. Copyright © 2006 EDHEC ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Table of Contents About the Authors 2 Foreword 3 Executive Summary 6 Résumé 11 Zusammenfassung 17 Introduction 24 1. Problem Outline 26 1.1. Indices in the Finance Literature 26 1.2. Indices in the Asset Management Industry 44 1.3. Conclusion 53 1.4. References 54 2. Lack of Stability 59 2.1. The Data 59 2.2. Style Composition 60 2.3. Sector Stability 68 2.4. Implicit Views 75 3. Lack of Efficiency 80 3.1. Efficiency: Conceptual remarks 80 3.2. Data 81 3.3. Results 83 4. Consequences for Portfolio Management and Remedies 92 4.1. Asset Allocation 94 4.2. Performance Measurement and Evaluation 102 4.3. References 109 Conclusion 111 Partners 114 ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT 1 ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT About the Authors Noël Amenc is Professor of Finance and Director of Research and Development at the EDHEC Graduate School of Business, where he heads the Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. He has conducted active research in the fields of quantitative equity management, portfolio performance analysis and active asset allocation, resulting in numerous academic and practitioner articles and books. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Alternative Investments and a member of the scientific advisory council of the AMF (French financial regulatory authority). Felix Goltz is a senior research engineer with the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre and a PhD student in finance at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. His research focus is on the use of derivatives in portfolio management and the econometrics of realized and implied volatility. He has studied economics and business administration at the University of Bayreuth, the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis and EDHEC. Véronique Le Sourd has a Master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. From 1992 to 1996, she worked as research assistant within the Finance and Economics department of the French business school, HEC and then joined the research department of Misys Asset Management Systems in Sophia Antipolis. She is currently a senior research engineer at the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. 2 ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Foreword Af2i and EDHEC are pleased to present the first reference not only for strategic allocation but study to have been carried out on the quality of also as a measure of investment management market indices as a benchmark for institutional performance. investors. Evaluating the quality of these indices as a We feel that this study is particularly valuable benchmark is therefore a question that is given the changes that have taken place in essential to institutional investors. recent years in asset management practices. For the vast majority of institutional investors, It is the importance of this question that led the construction of and adherence to a Af2i and EDHEC to carry out research on the benchmark is central to their investment main market indices used by French and other approach. And, very often, the choice of European investors. benchmark is a market index and/or a combination of market indices. This work received the support of BNP Paribas Asset Management and UBS Global Asset Since their design is not affected by the Management, to whom we extend our warmest securities chosen by managers and since they thanks. benefit from the sound reputation of major financial institutions, credit rating agencies We would also like to thank all of the authors and major international stock exchanges, who contributed to this study, in particular market indices appear to be the ultimate Felix Goltz, who coordinated the work. Noël Amenc Jean-Pierre Grimaud Professor of Finance at EDHEC and Director of the Vice-Chairman of Af2i EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT 3 ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT 4 ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Executive Summary ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Executive Summary The use of capitalisation-weighted indices is sectors of the industry are useful building blocks often justified by the central conclusion of for constructing equity portfolios, as different modern portfolio theory — that the optimal sectors of the economy have different exposure investment strategy for any investor is to hold to the business cycle. As the portfolio the market portfolio, the capitalisation-weighted composition by style and by sector directly portfolio of all assets. It should however be noted impacts the risk and return properties of the that empirical tests conclude that market indices portfolio, this decision requires major attention are not efficient. This can be explained by the fact from investors. that these indices do not include all assets or by Our analysis is motivated by the fact that the the fact that the theory does not hold. The index is often viewed as a somewhat neutral practical conclusion is that using capitalisation- investment decision. However, the choice of an weighted portfolios is not necessarily the optimal index as an investment support involves an method. implicit rather than an explicit choice of For purposes of asset allocation and performance allocation. Our focus is on qualifying the type of measurement, the assumption of index efficiency style-/sector- allocation choices made by is a central one. In addition, investors typically investing in an index. We test the stability of perceive the index to be a neutral choice of long- existing indices in terms of exposure to both term risk factor exposure. These requirements investment styles and industry sectors and we mean that the existing indices may be of good or find that the relative weight of the different sub- bad quality depending on the degree to which indices varies drastically over time. they fulfil the requirements. This survey To summarise how the style weights of broad addresses this issue using a number of well- market indices vary over time, we calculate the known stock market indices. style drift score. This score indicates the average variability of the style or sector weights for each index. Lack of Stable Risk Exposure Style Drift Score based on style exposures We conduct an empirical study assessing the Style Drift Score stability of the allocations of existing indices. The Cac 40 4.2% goal is to identify the evolution of the weights in DAX 30 5.5% a range of broad market indices. We conduct this FTSE 100 4.2% DJ Euro Stoxx 50 4.9% analysis since investors are typically interested in DJ Euro Stoxx 300 2.6% the allocation over the different subcategories of DJ Stoxx 600 5.5% their equity portfolio. The most relevant Nikkei 225 17.6% subcategories for equity investors are investment Topix 500 8.2% S&P 500 2.3% styles such as growth and value and industry Russell 2000 11.0% sectors. This stems from the fact that size (large Dow Jones Industrials 30 26.0% cap, small cap, etc) and style (growth, value) have been shown to explain a significant portion of Results for the style weights are indicated in Illustrations 4 ,5, 6 and 7 of the full document. The figures show the variability of the weights the cross-sectional difference in expected stock given in the left hand side graphs of illustrations 4 ,5, 6 and 7 of the full study. The style drift indicator is calculated according to the returns (see section one of this study). Likewise, method of Idzorek and Bertsch described in the complete text. 6 ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF STOCK MARKET INDICES: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSET ALLOCATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Executive Summary The sector weights of the market indices that weights of the sectors correspond to a we analyse also show drastic variation over modification in the expected returns on the time. While this may be expected, given that our respective sector. In fact, the view of the market period covers the technology bubble and its on the returns of the different sectors may show burst, even when looking at relatively calm considerable variation. Thus, the burst of the periods on the stock market, the variations in technology bubble and the corresponding sector weights are considerable.
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