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. 2020 May 23;71:101526. doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101526

Table 3.

Sharp ratio of optimised portfolios during the COVID-19 and detected change dates.

Bitcoin Gold EUR-USD CNY-USD Oil Soybean
Panel A: Sharp ratios
MSCI-US −0.0347 0.0711 −0.0049 −0.0494 −0.0347 0.0125
MSCI-EU −0.0652 0.0711 −0.0050 −0.0494 −0.0652 0.0120
MSCI-CN −0.0023 0.0719 −0.0050 −0.0023 −0.0023 0.0125



Panel B: Break dates when τ = 0.05
MSCI-US 09-Mar 09-Mar
MSCI-EU 26-Mar 24-Mar
MSCI-CN 24-Mar 26-Mar 24-Mar 24-Mar



τ = 0.10
MSCI-US 23-Mar 06-Mar 12-Mar
MSCI-EU 06-Mar 24-Mar
MSCI-CN 06-Mar 24-Mar



τ = 0.15
MSCI-US 06-Mar 12-Mar
MSCI-EU 06-Mar 25-Mar
MSCI-CN 06-Mar



τ = 0.20
MSCI-US 12-Mar 06-Mar 12-Mar
MSCI-EU 06-Mar
MSCI-CN 06-Mar

Note: The sharp ratio from Panel A is calculated by dividing the standard deviation from the average of portfolio returns. In Panel B, the detection is performed for left-quantiles when τ = 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20. All change dates in Panel B are in the year 2020.