# Load packages

# Core
library(tidyverse)
library(tidyquant)
library(readr)

# Time series
library(lubridate)
library(tibbletime)

# modeling
library(broom)

Goal

Examine how each asset contributes to portfolio standard deviation. This is to ensure that our risk is not concentrated in any one asset.

five stocks: “SPY”, “EFA”, “IJS”, “EEM”, “AGG” from 2012-12-31 to 2017-12-31

1 Import stock prices

symbols <- c("SPY", "EFA", "IJS", "EEM", "AGG")

prices <- tq_get(x = symbols,
get = "stock.prices",
from = "2012-12-31",
to = "2017-12-31")

2 Convert prices to returns

asset_returns_tbl <- prices %>%

group_by(symbol) %>%

tq_transmute(select = adjusted, 
mutate_fun = periodReturn, 
period = "monthly",
type = "log") %>%

slice(-1) %>%

ungroup() %>%

set_names(c("asset", "date", "returns"))

3 Component Contribution Step-by-Step

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# Transform data into wide form
asset_returns_wide_tbl <- asset_returns_tbl %>%

pivot_wider(names_from = asset, values_from = returns) %>%

column_to_rownames(var = "date")

asset_returns_wide_tbl
##                      AGG           EEM           EFA          IJS           SPY
## 2013-01-31 -0.0062305453 -0.0029352688  0.0366062650  0.052133149  4.992235e-02
## 2013-02-28  0.0058909631 -0.0231054073 -0.0129694909  0.016175424  1.267813e-02
## 2013-03-28  0.0009847306 -0.0102350357  0.0129694909  0.040257839  3.726813e-02
## 2013-04-30  0.0096390512  0.0120848687  0.0489676492  0.001222713  1.903041e-02
## 2013-05-31 -0.0202139585 -0.0494834671 -0.0306554884  0.041975948  2.333472e-02
## 2013-06-28 -0.0157777060 -0.0547283597 -0.0271445588 -0.001402413 -1.343406e-02
## 2013-07-31  0.0026874190  0.0131597885  0.0518603677  0.063541358  5.038651e-02
## 2013-08-30 -0.0082985025 -0.0257057642 -0.0197463271 -0.034743616 -3.045183e-02
## 2013-09-30  0.0111443195  0.0695889252  0.0753385111  0.063873468  3.115611e-02
## 2013-10-31  0.0082920624  0.0408611570  0.0320816706  0.034234302  4.526679e-02
## 2013-11-29 -0.0025104241 -0.0025940988  0.0054496048  0.041661253  2.920713e-02
## 2013-12-31 -0.0055829717 -0.0040741678  0.0215281022  0.012892091  2.559617e-02
## 2014-01-31  0.0152920045 -0.0903225673 -0.0534133163 -0.035775443 -3.588491e-02
## 2014-02-28  0.0037567613  0.0332202091  0.0595049750  0.045257116  4.451025e-02
## 2014-03-31 -0.0014813577  0.0380219757 -0.0046023586  0.013315641  8.261573e-03
## 2014-04-30  0.0081829892  0.0077725291  0.0165292256 -0.023184268  6.927202e-03
## 2014-05-30  0.0117216430  0.0290913028  0.0158283779  0.006205254  2.294117e-02
## 2014-06-30 -0.0005753327  0.0237339731  0.0091656681  0.037718663  2.043473e-02
## 2014-07-31 -0.0025127213  0.0135555916 -0.0263800207 -0.052009655 -1.352846e-02
## 2014-08-29  0.0114309431  0.0279048117  0.0018004102  0.043658182  3.870482e-02
## 2014-09-30 -0.0061675990 -0.0808569690 -0.0395986207 -0.061260523 -1.389267e-02
## 2014-10-31  0.0105846287  0.0140964731 -0.0026545221  0.068875124  2.327785e-02
## 2014-11-28  0.0065495773 -0.0155411980  0.0006252277  0.004773581  2.710149e-02
## 2014-12-31  0.0014742818 -0.0404420707 -0.0407467338  0.025295778 -2.539621e-03
## 2015-01-30  0.0203159736 -0.0068957389  0.0062265285 -0.054628105 -3.007747e-02
## 2015-02-27 -0.0089888463  0.0431360303  0.0614504891  0.056914624  5.468220e-02
## 2015-03-31  0.0037404093 -0.0150860054 -0.0143886299  0.010156130 -1.583013e-02
## 2015-04-30 -0.0032328335  0.0662809748  0.0358165244 -0.018417322  9.785495e-03
## 2015-05-29 -0.0043836620 -0.0419109916  0.0019528496  0.007509946  1.277439e-02
## 2015-06-30 -0.0108256221 -0.0297462661 -0.0316790390  0.004171401 -2.052134e-02
## 2015-07-31  0.0085846113 -0.0651784060  0.0201145268 -0.027375406  2.233803e-02
## 2015-08-31 -0.0033635579 -0.0925121655 -0.0771525052 -0.047268427 -6.288664e-02
## 2015-09-30  0.0080813138 -0.0318251679 -0.0451947603 -0.038464675 -2.584712e-02
## 2015-10-30  0.0006851956  0.0618082085  0.0640257005  0.063589830  8.163479e-02
## 2015-11-30 -0.0038982208 -0.0255602827 -0.0075556327  0.024414927  3.648359e-03
## 2015-12-31 -0.0019187745 -0.0389471673 -0.0235951113 -0.052156975 -1.743333e-02
## 2016-01-29  0.0123298766 -0.0516365772 -0.0567577233 -0.060307025 -5.106864e-02
## 2016-02-29  0.0088316492 -0.0082116587 -0.0339140803  0.020605651 -8.262117e-04
## 2016-03-31  0.0087088505  0.1218790109  0.0637457845  0.089910269  6.509993e-02
## 2016-04-29  0.0025462768  0.0040792910  0.0219749876  0.021043891  3.933497e-03
## 2016-05-31  0.0001351819 -0.0376285571 -0.0008558647  0.004397251  1.686862e-02
## 2016-06-30  0.0191669436  0.0445824177 -0.0244914894  0.008292354  3.469801e-03
## 2016-07-29  0.0054296835  0.0524422376  0.0390000855  0.049348426  3.582216e-02
## 2016-08-31 -0.0021560700  0.0087985231  0.0053269932  0.011260936  1.196553e-03
## 2016-09-30  0.0005159680  0.0248727457  0.0132788824  0.008614608  5.799761e-05
## 2016-10-31 -0.0082052463 -0.0083121403 -0.0224036715 -0.038134830 -1.748900e-02
## 2016-11-30 -0.0259899205 -0.0451616703 -0.0179743747  0.125246368  3.617593e-02
## 2016-12-30  0.0025384640 -0.0025302578  0.0267029060  0.031491825  2.006923e-02
## 2017-01-31  0.0021259329  0.0644315366  0.0323819047 -0.012143975  1.773635e-02
## 2017-02-28  0.0064376503  0.0172580780  0.0118363766  0.013428686  3.853934e-02
## 2017-03-31 -0.0005531325  0.0361887239  0.0318056038 -0.006532810  1.249145e-03
## 2017-04-28  0.0090294200  0.0168664410  0.0239523267  0.005107722  9.877276e-03
## 2017-05-31  0.0068474190  0.0280599501  0.0348103271 -0.022862727  1.401428e-02
## 2017-06-30 -0.0001829040  0.0092236192  0.0029559201  0.029152010  6.354549e-03
## 2017-07-31  0.0033348855  0.0565946270  0.0261877950  0.007481336  2.034574e-02
## 2017-08-31  0.0093692132  0.0232438081 -0.0004483769 -0.027564570  2.913519e-03
## 2017-09-29 -0.0057322101 -0.0004463693  0.0233428366  0.082321738  1.994909e-02
## 2017-10-31  0.0009779116  0.0322786122  0.0166537003  0.005915795  2.329078e-02
## 2017-11-30 -0.0014839773 -0.0038968548  0.0068700619  0.036913287  3.010781e-02
## 2017-12-29  0.0047400574  0.0369253694  0.0133982932 -0.003730935  1.205538e-02
# Covariance of asset returns
covariance_matrix <- cov(asset_returns_wide_tbl)

covariance_matrix
##               AGG          EEM          EFA           IJS           SPY
## AGG  7.398510e-05 0.0001042099 4.178258e-05 -7.812064e-05 -9.031942e-06
## EEM  1.042099e-04 0.0017547101 1.039016e-03  6.437753e-04  6.795437e-04
## EFA  4.178258e-05 0.0010390156 1.064237e-03  6.490305e-04  6.975416e-04
## IJS -7.812064e-05 0.0006437753 6.490305e-04  1.565450e-03  8.290258e-04
## SPY -9.031942e-06 0.0006795437 6.975416e-04  8.290258e-04  7.408302e-04
# Standard deviation of portfolio
# Summarizes how much each asset's returns vary with those of other assets within the portfolio into a single number
w <- c(0.25, 0.25, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1)

sd_portfolio <- sqrt(t(w) %*% covariance_matrix %*% w)
sd_portfolio
##            [,1]
## [1,] 0.02347491
# Component contribution
# Similar to the formula for sd_portfolio
# Mathematical trick to summarize the same, sd_portfolio, by asset instead of a single number
component_contribution <- (t(w) %*% covariance_matrix * w) / sd_portfolio[1,1]
component_contribution
##              AGG         EEM         EFA         IJS         SPY
## [1,] 0.000387413 0.009257144 0.005815631 0.005684472 0.002330251
rowSums(component_contribution)
## [1] 0.02347491
# Component contribution in percentage
component_percentages <- (component_contribution / sd_portfolio[1,1]) %>%
    round(3) %>%
    as_tibble()

component_percentages
## # A tibble: 1 × 5
##     AGG   EEM   EFA   IJS   SPY
##   <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 0.017 0.394 0.248 0.242 0.099
component_percentages %>%

as_tibble() %>%
gather(key = "asset", value = "contribution")
## # A tibble: 5 × 2
##   asset contribution
##   <chr>        <dbl>
## 1 AGG          0.017
## 2 EEM          0.394
## 3 EFA          0.248
## 4 IJS          0.242
## 5 SPY          0.099

4 Component Contribution with a Custom Function

# Transform data into wide form
asset_returns_wide_tbl <- asset_returns_tbl %>%

pivot_wider(names_from = asset, values_from = returns) %>%

column_to_rownames(var = "date")

asset_returns_wide_tbl
##                      AGG           EEM           EFA          IJS           SPY
## 2013-01-31 -0.0062305453 -0.0029352688  0.0366062650  0.052133149  4.992235e-02
## 2013-02-28  0.0058909631 -0.0231054073 -0.0129694909  0.016175424  1.267813e-02
## 2013-03-28  0.0009847306 -0.0102350357  0.0129694909  0.040257839  3.726813e-02
## 2013-04-30  0.0096390512  0.0120848687  0.0489676492  0.001222713  1.903041e-02
## 2013-05-31 -0.0202139585 -0.0494834671 -0.0306554884  0.041975948  2.333472e-02
## 2013-06-28 -0.0157777060 -0.0547283597 -0.0271445588 -0.001402413 -1.343406e-02
## 2013-07-31  0.0026874190  0.0131597885  0.0518603677  0.063541358  5.038651e-02
## 2013-08-30 -0.0082985025 -0.0257057642 -0.0197463271 -0.034743616 -3.045183e-02
## 2013-09-30  0.0111443195  0.0695889252  0.0753385111  0.063873468  3.115611e-02
## 2013-10-31  0.0082920624  0.0408611570  0.0320816706  0.034234302  4.526679e-02
## 2013-11-29 -0.0025104241 -0.0025940988  0.0054496048  0.041661253  2.920713e-02
## 2013-12-31 -0.0055829717 -0.0040741678  0.0215281022  0.012892091  2.559617e-02
## 2014-01-31  0.0152920045 -0.0903225673 -0.0534133163 -0.035775443 -3.588491e-02
## 2014-02-28  0.0037567613  0.0332202091  0.0595049750  0.045257116  4.451025e-02
## 2014-03-31 -0.0014813577  0.0380219757 -0.0046023586  0.013315641  8.261573e-03
## 2014-04-30  0.0081829892  0.0077725291  0.0165292256 -0.023184268  6.927202e-03
## 2014-05-30  0.0117216430  0.0290913028  0.0158283779  0.006205254  2.294117e-02
## 2014-06-30 -0.0005753327  0.0237339731  0.0091656681  0.037718663  2.043473e-02
## 2014-07-31 -0.0025127213  0.0135555916 -0.0263800207 -0.052009655 -1.352846e-02
## 2014-08-29  0.0114309431  0.0279048117  0.0018004102  0.043658182  3.870482e-02
## 2014-09-30 -0.0061675990 -0.0808569690 -0.0395986207 -0.061260523 -1.389267e-02
## 2014-10-31  0.0105846287  0.0140964731 -0.0026545221  0.068875124  2.327785e-02
## 2014-11-28  0.0065495773 -0.0155411980  0.0006252277  0.004773581  2.710149e-02
## 2014-12-31  0.0014742818 -0.0404420707 -0.0407467338  0.025295778 -2.539621e-03
## 2015-01-30  0.0203159736 -0.0068957389  0.0062265285 -0.054628105 -3.007747e-02
## 2015-02-27 -0.0089888463  0.0431360303  0.0614504891  0.056914624  5.468220e-02
## 2015-03-31  0.0037404093 -0.0150860054 -0.0143886299  0.010156130 -1.583013e-02
## 2015-04-30 -0.0032328335  0.0662809748  0.0358165244 -0.018417322  9.785495e-03
## 2015-05-29 -0.0043836620 -0.0419109916  0.0019528496  0.007509946  1.277439e-02
## 2015-06-30 -0.0108256221 -0.0297462661 -0.0316790390  0.004171401 -2.052134e-02
## 2015-07-31  0.0085846113 -0.0651784060  0.0201145268 -0.027375406  2.233803e-02
## 2015-08-31 -0.0033635579 -0.0925121655 -0.0771525052 -0.047268427 -6.288664e-02
## 2015-09-30  0.0080813138 -0.0318251679 -0.0451947603 -0.038464675 -2.584712e-02
## 2015-10-30  0.0006851956  0.0618082085  0.0640257005  0.063589830  8.163479e-02
## 2015-11-30 -0.0038982208 -0.0255602827 -0.0075556327  0.024414927  3.648359e-03
## 2015-12-31 -0.0019187745 -0.0389471673 -0.0235951113 -0.052156975 -1.743333e-02
## 2016-01-29  0.0123298766 -0.0516365772 -0.0567577233 -0.060307025 -5.106864e-02
## 2016-02-29  0.0088316492 -0.0082116587 -0.0339140803  0.020605651 -8.262117e-04
## 2016-03-31  0.0087088505  0.1218790109  0.0637457845  0.089910269  6.509993e-02
## 2016-04-29  0.0025462768  0.0040792910  0.0219749876  0.021043891  3.933497e-03
## 2016-05-31  0.0001351819 -0.0376285571 -0.0008558647  0.004397251  1.686862e-02
## 2016-06-30  0.0191669436  0.0445824177 -0.0244914894  0.008292354  3.469801e-03
## 2016-07-29  0.0054296835  0.0524422376  0.0390000855  0.049348426  3.582216e-02
## 2016-08-31 -0.0021560700  0.0087985231  0.0053269932  0.011260936  1.196553e-03
## 2016-09-30  0.0005159680  0.0248727457  0.0132788824  0.008614608  5.799761e-05
## 2016-10-31 -0.0082052463 -0.0083121403 -0.0224036715 -0.038134830 -1.748900e-02
## 2016-11-30 -0.0259899205 -0.0451616703 -0.0179743747  0.125246368  3.617593e-02
## 2016-12-30  0.0025384640 -0.0025302578  0.0267029060  0.031491825  2.006923e-02
## 2017-01-31  0.0021259329  0.0644315366  0.0323819047 -0.012143975  1.773635e-02
## 2017-02-28  0.0064376503  0.0172580780  0.0118363766  0.013428686  3.853934e-02
## 2017-03-31 -0.0005531325  0.0361887239  0.0318056038 -0.006532810  1.249145e-03
## 2017-04-28  0.0090294200  0.0168664410  0.0239523267  0.005107722  9.877276e-03
## 2017-05-31  0.0068474190  0.0280599501  0.0348103271 -0.022862727  1.401428e-02
## 2017-06-30 -0.0001829040  0.0092236192  0.0029559201  0.029152010  6.354549e-03
## 2017-07-31  0.0033348855  0.0565946270  0.0261877950  0.007481336  2.034574e-02
## 2017-08-31  0.0093692132  0.0232438081 -0.0004483769 -0.027564570  2.913519e-03
## 2017-09-29 -0.0057322101 -0.0004463693  0.0233428366  0.082321738  1.994909e-02
## 2017-10-31  0.0009779116  0.0322786122  0.0166537003  0.005915795  2.329078e-02
## 2017-11-30 -0.0014839773 -0.0038968548  0.0068700619  0.036913287  3.010781e-02
## 2017-12-29  0.0047400574  0.0369253694  0.0133982932 -0.003730935  1.205538e-02
cal_component_contribution <- function(.data, w) {

# Covariance of asset returns
covariance_matrix <- cov(.data)

# Standard deviation of portfolio
# Summarizes how much each asset's returns vary with those of other assets within the portfolio into a single number
sd_portfolio <- sqrt(t(w) %*% covariance_matrix %*% w)

# Component contribution
# Similar to the formula for sd_portfolio
# Mathematical trick to summarize the same, sd_portfolio, by asset instead of a single number
component_contribution <- (t(w) %*% covariance_matrix * w) / sd_portfolio[1,1]

# Component contribution in percentage
component_percentages <- (component_contribution / sd_portfolio[1,1]) %>%
round(3) %>%
as_tibble()

return(component_percentages)
}

asset_returns_wide_tbl %>% cal_component_contribution(w = c(.25, .25, .2, .2, .1 ))
## # A tibble: 1 × 5
##     AGG   EEM   EFA   IJS   SPY
##   <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 0.017 0.394 0.248 0.242 0.099

5 Visualizing Component Contribution

Column Chart of Component Contribution

plot_data <- asset_returns_wide_tbl %>%

cal_component_contribution(w = c(.25, .25, .2, .2, .1 )) %>%

# Transform to long from
pivot_longer(cols = everything(), names_to = "Asset", values_to = "Contribution") 

plot_data %>%

ggplot(aes(x = Asset, y = Contribution)) +
geom_col(fill = "cornflowerblue") +

scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1)) +
theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) +

labs(title = "Percent Contribution to Portfolio Volatility")

Column Chart of Component Contribution and Weight

plot_data <- asset_returns_wide_tbl %>%

cal_component_contribution(w = c(.25, .25, .2, .2, .1 )) %>%

# Transform to long from
pivot_longer(cols = everything(), names_to = "Asset", values_to = "Contribution") %>%
# Add Weights
add_column(weight = c(.25, .25, .2, .2, .1)) %>%

# Transform to long
    pivot_longer(cols = c(Contribution, weight), names_to = "type", values_to = "value")

plot_data %>%

ggplot(aes(x = Asset, y = value, fill = type)) +
geom_col(position = "dodge") +

scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1)) +
scale_fill_tq() +
theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) +
theme_tq() +

labs(title = "Percent Contribution to Portfolio Volatility and Weight",
y = "percent",
x = NULL)

## 6 Rolling Component Contribution