Australian Bond Excess Returns: An Asset Allocation Perspective. (20th January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Rui; Wang, Meng; Svec, Jiri
• Is Part Of: Australian economic papers. Volume 56:Number 2(2017)
• Page Start: 163
• Page End: 173
• Publication Date: 2017-01-20
• Subjects: Economics -- Periodicals; Australia -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 330
• DOI: 10.1111/1467-8454.12087
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0004-900X

Abstract

Abstract : We examine the out‐of‐sample predictability of excess returns in the Australian government bond market. Our results confirm previous findings that a linear combination of forward rates provides a statistically significant prediction of bond excess returns on 1‐ to 5‐year maturity bonds. However, from an asset allocation perspective, our predictive model fails to obtain positive economic utility against the no‐predictability benchmark. Our results are robust to the sample period and different parameter assumptions.