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Pitfalls in Risk Attribution

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
While performance analysis is typically conducted on a benchmark-relative basis, risk analysis is often presented on an absolute-return basis. This mismatch between sources of risk and return leads to the pitfall that active management decisions cannot be evaluated on a risk-adjusted basis.
Ben Davis, Jose Menchero
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Tail Risk Attribution

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Tail risk refers to the shape of the left tail of the distribution of investment returns. Return distributions are traditionally described in terms of their first for moments: mean return, volatility, skewness and kurtosis. Attribution is a descriptive approach used in portfolio analysis to explain a certain magnitude as the sum of contributions from ...
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Active Risk Attribution

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
We propose an integrated analysis of portfolio performance and active risk by applying the Brinson approach to Tracking Error and active Beta.
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Modifying Attributions of Colorectal Cancer Risk

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2004
Abstract We report how a four-group risk communication intervention targeted to individuals in the carpentry trade affected their perceived causes (i.e., attributions) for increased colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. The intervention varied the amount of information presented on CRC risk factors and whether participants received tailored ...
Isaac M, Lipkus   +5 more
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Population attributable risk for ovarian cancer

European Journal of Cancer, 2000
Parity, oral contraceptive (OC) use, age at menopause, a family history of the disease and selected aspects of diet have been related to the risk of ovarian cancer. The quantification of their impact on a population level may help focus and rank the importance of potential prevention strategies.
F. Parazzini   +5 more
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Attributions in explanations of risk estimates

Public Understanding of Science, 2002
In the spring of 1993, nearly 40 percent of Milwaukee-area residents experienced a nationally publicized outbreak of cryptosporidium, a parasite that infested the metropolitan drinking water supply. Using open-ended survey data gathered from 610 adult residents in the wake of that outbreak, this study looks at factors related to the ways in which ...
Kahlor, Lee Ann   +2 more
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Partitioning methods for multifactorial risk attribution

Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2001
The epidemiological problem of risk attribution in the framework of multiple exposures has been the subject of intensive research activities in the last decade. In particular, partitioning methods have been developed to define new multidimensional measures of attributable risk putting the task of quantifying a proportion of disease events in a ...
Land, Matthias   +2 more
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Risk-Adjusted Performance Attribution

Financial Analysts Journal, 1992
(1992). Risk-Adjusted Performance Attribution. Financial Analysts Journal: Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 75-82, 74.
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