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Hedges and safe havens: An examination of stocks, bonds, gold, oil and exchange rates

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The authors investigated the return relations between major asset classes using data from both the US and the UK and found that gold can be regarded as a safe haven against exchange rates in both countries, highlighting its monetary asset role.
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This article is published in International Review of Financial Analysis.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 452 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Asset allocation & Asset (economics).

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An Investment Strategy Based on Life and Business Cycles

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an investment strategy that considers both the life cycle and the business cycle by investing in the market index of emerging and global markets (called the Business and Life Cycle Fund (BLCF)).
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The economic value of high-frequency data in equity-oil hedge

TL;DR: In this paper, the economic value of high-frequency data in the equity-oil hedge was studied and the results revealed the benefits and limitations of using intraday information in cross-asset hedges.
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Re-examining the leverage effect and gold’s safe haven properties with the utilization of the implied volatility of gold: a non-parametric quantile regression approach

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between gold prices and implied volatility in the futures markets of gold, re-examine the leverage hypothesis and attempt to make inferences about gold's safe haven properties.
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Safe Haven Assets - The Bigger Picture

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use quantile regression to analyze the returns of potential safe haven assets conditional on all market conditions including periods of financial turmoil, and find a trade-off, i.e., stronger in-crisis performance of safe-haven assets is associated with weaker out-c crisis performance and vice versa for risky assets.
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Do economic crises cause trading in Bitcoin?

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the relationship between currency price, return and Bitcoin trading volume, and showed that low currency price and currency depreciation are accompanied with increased Bitcoin trading, indicating that Bitcoin is a hedge asset to protect against local currency depreciation, but not a safe-haven asset for the global crisis.
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Dynamic Conditional Correlation: A Simple Class of Multivariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Models

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Asymmetric Dynamics in the Correlations of Global Equity and Bond Returns

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Is Gold a Hedge or a Safe Haven? An Analysis of Stocks, Bonds and Gold

TL;DR: In this article, constant and time-varying relations between U.S., U.K. and German stock and bond returns and gold returns were investigated to investigate gold as a hedge and a safe haven.
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