Cryptoassets are becoming increasingly popular in the financial markets as a new investment instrument. This thesis aims to study their use in this sense from several points of view. After deepening on the state of art, this work analyzes cryptoassets properties such as returns and volatility in relation to the properties of common financial instruments such as equity, bonds, currencies and commodities represented by financial indices. Then the correlations are studied both within the world of cryptoassets and with all the other standard assets. What catches the eye is the fact that cryptoassets are uncorrelated to the market but strongly correlated to each other. This suggests to consider them as a new asset class. Finally an analysis of the optimal allocation of a portfolio composed with and without cryptoassets is done with the Markowitz model. The results show that it is useful in terms of diversification to include cryptoassets in a portfolio but having multiple cryptoassets or just bitcoins doesn't make much difference.
I cryptoassets stanno diventando sempre più popolari all’interno dei mercati finanziari come nuovo strumento di investimento. Questa tesi ha l’obiettivo di studiare il loro utilizzo in questo senso da diversi punti di vista. Dopo aver approfondito lo stato dell’arte, questo lavoro analizza le proprietà dei cryptoasset, come i rendimenti e la volatilità, in relazione alle proprietà dei più comuni strumenti di investimento, come titoli azionari, obbligazionari, valute e materie prime, i quali vengono rappresentati da indici finanziari. Vengono poi studiate le correlazioni sia tra cryptoasset che tra quest’ultimi e gli strumenti standard. Ciò che balza agli occhi è che la correlazione è molto bassa tra asset digitali e mercato ma molto alta tra i cryptoasset stessi. Si è portati dunque a considerare questi strumenti come parte di una nuova asset class. Infine, viene analizzata l’allocazione ottima di un portafoglio composto da soli strumenti standard in contrapposizione all’allocazione di un portafoglio che contiene anche diversi cryptoasset. I risultati mostrano che è utile in termini di diversificazione includere asset digitali in un portafoglio, ma averne tanti differenti piuttosto che solo bitcoin non genera un aumento significativo di valore.
Cryptoassets in asset allocation : a new asset class
AVIGNI, MATTEO
2018/2019
Abstract
Cryptoassets are becoming increasingly popular in the financial markets as a new investment instrument. This thesis aims to study their use in this sense from several points of view. After deepening on the state of art, this work analyzes cryptoassets properties such as returns and volatility in relation to the properties of common financial instruments such as equity, bonds, currencies and commodities represented by financial indices. Then the correlations are studied both within the world of cryptoassets and with all the other standard assets. What catches the eye is the fact that cryptoassets are uncorrelated to the market but strongly correlated to each other. This suggests to consider them as a new asset class. Finally an analysis of the optimal allocation of a portfolio composed with and without cryptoassets is done with the Markowitz model. The results show that it is useful in terms of diversification to include cryptoassets in a portfolio but having multiple cryptoassets or just bitcoins doesn't make much difference.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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