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Option-based portfolio insurance can result in coordinated buying and selling, which destabilizes markets such that hedgers fail to achieve their objective. Gennotte and Leland (1990) show portfolio insurance strategies can have an impact on price movements. Ramanlal and Mann (1996) show how price movements, in turn, can alter hedging strategies. In this paper, we combine these separate effects and develop an equilibrium, executable hedging strategy. This hedging strategy requires less rebalancing than traditional portfolio insurance; more important, it achieves downside protection with a less destabilizing impact on security prices.
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Ramanlal, P., Mann, S.V. Portfolio Insurance Strategies when Hedging Affects Share Prices. Journal of Financial Services Research 13, 23–35 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007902326906
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