UBS Collaborates with Nobel Laureate Robert Engle on a New Volatility Controlled Index Series
16 Janeiro 2025 - 2:54PM
Business Wire
UBS announced today its collaboration with Engle Volatility
Consulting LLC (“Engle Consulting”), the research principal of
which is Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert F. Engle, on a methodology for a
series of volatility controlled indices. The series uses
rules-based systematic investment strategies that aim to provide
enhanced exposure to various underlying assets using a novel
forward-looking intraday volatility forecasting methodology
developed with Dr. Engle.
The first of the index series will aim at improving the
risk-return profile of major benchmark equity indices in order to
serve the increasing demand in retirement products and help
investors achieve their financial goals.
Ghali El-Boukfaoui, Head of Insurance Sales at UBS Investment
Bank, said: “We are excited to collaborate with Dr. Engle to bring
this innovation to the retirement market. Volatility control
methodologies have, for the longest time, been overlooked from an
innovation standpoint and we take the view that a good volatility
forecasting method can lead to enhanced performance.”
El-Boukfaoui adds: “Dr. Engle has spent his career solving for
the volatility forecasting problem as an indicator for price
actions, and the goal of our collaboration is to bring an
innovation that positively impacts the financial outcome of
investors.”
“The heart of a good volatility-control mechanism is a good
forecast of volatility,” said Dr. Robert Engle. These indices are
designed to give investors exposure to benchmarks with a
competitive risk-return profile by applying an innovative
forward-looking intraday volatility control based on a volatility
forecasting model.
The model is based on Dr. Engle's research and aims at producing
a more reactive intraday allocation mechanism that can rapidly
adapt to changing market conditions and more accurately predict
volatility by using a variation of the ARCH model.
For more information please visit
https://indices.ubs.com/engle
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