# 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 -0.0062313944 -0.0029356431  0.0366062975  0.052133618  4.992319e-02
## 2013-02-28  0.0058911870 -0.0231048248 -0.0129692976  0.016175211  1.267793e-02
## 2013-03-28  0.0009849471 -0.0102351212  0.0129692976  0.040258000  3.726828e-02
## 2013-04-30  0.0096389084  0.0120845930  0.0489677005  0.001222503  1.902936e-02
## 2013-05-31 -0.0202134078 -0.0494833224 -0.0306556296  0.041976249  2.333585e-02
## 2013-06-28 -0.0157786236 -0.0547285436 -0.0271442109 -0.001402777 -1.343443e-02
## 2013-07-31  0.0026878088  0.0131599496  0.0518601076  0.063541140  5.038618e-02
## 2013-08-30 -0.0082977748 -0.0257058570 -0.0197463931 -0.034743254 -3.045162e-02
## 2013-09-30  0.0111435496  0.0695888451  0.0753386814  0.063873551  3.115624e-02
## 2013-10-31  0.0082922064  0.0408615063  0.0320816635  0.034234141  4.526628e-02
## 2013-11-29 -0.0025097964 -0.0025941817  0.0054497179  0.041660922  2.920724e-02
## 2013-12-31 -0.0055831705 -0.0040740470  0.0215279453  0.012892142  2.559615e-02
## 2014-01-31  0.0152915793 -0.0903230688 -0.0534132453 -0.035775084 -3.588439e-02
## 2014-02-28  0.0037569381  0.0332205445  0.0595049838  0.045257141  4.451018e-02
## 2014-03-31 -0.0014815112  0.0380219517 -0.0046026549  0.013315306  8.261085e-03
## 2014-04-30  0.0081835763  0.0077726504  0.0165296121 -0.023184109  6.927694e-03
## 2014-05-30  0.0117216242  0.0290911140  0.0158283807  0.006205324  2.294127e-02
## 2014-06-30 -0.0005762010  0.0237337198  0.0091652403  0.037718535  2.043424e-02
## 2014-07-31 -0.0025119009  0.0135558451 -0.0263796025 -0.052009176 -1.352831e-02
## 2014-08-29  0.0114306548  0.0279046178  0.0018002804  0.043657851  3.870440e-02
## 2014-09-30 -0.0061675253 -0.0808568044 -0.0395984072 -0.061260606 -1.389212e-02
## 2014-10-31  0.0105845187  0.0140967334 -0.0026548858  0.068874860  2.327798e-02
## 2014-11-28  0.0065489038 -0.0155415682  0.0006253854  0.004773791  2.710153e-02
## 2014-12-31  0.0014750330 -0.0404420637 -0.0407467496  0.025295706 -2.540074e-03
## 2015-01-30  0.0203154369 -0.0068954611  0.0062265697 -0.054627960 -3.007711e-02
## 2015-02-27 -0.0089888415  0.0431356829  0.0614505865  0.056914600  5.468226e-02
## 2015-03-31  0.0037407160 -0.0150860192 -0.0143887489  0.010156537 -1.583061e-02
## 2015-04-30 -0.0032330575  0.0662813930  0.0358164419 -0.018417868  9.786065e-03
## 2015-05-29 -0.0043835034 -0.0419110539  0.0019527690  0.007510071  1.277406e-02
## 2015-06-30 -0.0108258315 -0.0297465802 -0.0316789046  0.004171341 -2.052132e-02
## 2015-07-31  0.0085850533 -0.0651783352  0.0201144652 -0.027375325  2.233802e-02
## 2015-08-31 -0.0033641788 -0.0925122172 -0.0771522768 -0.047268437 -6.288658e-02
## 2015-09-30  0.0080815251 -0.0318248759 -0.0451947314 -0.038464775 -2.584735e-02
## 2015-10-30  0.0006856085  0.0618083050  0.0640258955  0.063589825  8.163495e-02
## 2015-11-30 -0.0038982457 -0.0255604844 -0.0075561459  0.024415107  3.648548e-03
## 2015-12-31 -0.0019189840 -0.0389471705 -0.0235949565 -0.052157131 -1.743354e-02
## 2016-01-29  0.0123302026 -0.0516366428 -0.0567577631 -0.060307008 -5.106879e-02
## 2016-02-29  0.0088309883 -0.0082117307 -0.0339139210  0.020605333 -8.262158e-04
## 2016-03-31  0.0087089964  0.1218791540  0.0637454672  0.089910583  6.510001e-02
## 2016-04-29  0.0025465661  0.0040791679  0.0219752130  0.021044174  3.933711e-03
## 2016-05-31  0.0001354430 -0.0376286552 -0.0008559818  0.004397249  1.686853e-02
## 2016-06-30  0.0191665192  0.0445826519 -0.0244915330  0.008292066  3.469921e-03
## 2016-07-29  0.0054298247  0.0524418925  0.0390001700  0.049348448  3.582194e-02
## 2016-08-31 -0.0021562179  0.0087987151  0.0053268678  0.011260928  1.196610e-03
## 2016-09-30  0.0005161556  0.0248729131  0.0132791638  0.008614752  5.780091e-05
## 2016-10-31 -0.0082053062 -0.0083123579 -0.0224036234 -0.038134925 -1.748878e-02
## 2016-11-30 -0.0259898848 -0.0451617456 -0.0179745854  0.125246364  3.617599e-02
## 2016-12-30  0.0025378768 -0.0025300066  0.0267031167  0.031491978  2.006913e-02
## 2017-01-31  0.0021264319  0.0644316425  0.0323817564 -0.012143875  1.773659e-02
## 2017-02-28  0.0064378729  0.0172576947  0.0118363664  0.013428690  3.853902e-02
## 2017-03-31 -0.0005528926  0.0361890439  0.0318056821 -0.006532922  1.249175e-03
## 2017-04-28  0.0090292593  0.0168662675  0.0239523044  0.005107813  9.877366e-03
## 2017-05-31  0.0068472204  0.0280600796  0.0348101417 -0.022862475  1.401406e-02
## 2017-06-30 -0.0001826264  0.0092237832  0.0029559199  0.029151400  6.354788e-03
## 2017-07-31  0.0033344101  0.0565943473  0.0261879949  0.007481802  2.034578e-02
## 2017-08-31  0.0093693928  0.0232439220 -0.0004485071 -0.027564953  2.913602e-03
## 2017-09-29 -0.0057322330 -0.0004462966  0.0233429293  0.082321537  1.994902e-02
## 2017-10-31  0.0009779679  0.0322784443  0.0166537083  0.005916432  2.329060e-02
## 2017-11-30 -0.0014840876 -0.0038970090  0.0068698934  0.036913188  3.010813e-02
## 2017-12-29  0.0047402631  0.0369254493  0.0133984009 -0.003731035  1.205515e-02
# Covariance of asset returns
covariance_matrix <- cov(asset_returns_wide_tbl)

covariance_matrix
##               AGG          EEM          EFA           IJS           SPY
## AGG  7.398437e-05 0.0001042103 4.178261e-05 -7.812152e-05 -9.031834e-06
## EEM  1.042103e-04 0.0017547132 1.039015e-03  6.437741e-04  6.795419e-04
## EFA  4.178261e-05 0.0010390150 1.064235e-03  6.490286e-04  6.975393e-04
## IJS -7.812152e-05 0.0006437741 6.490286e-04  1.565448e-03  8.290249e-04
## SPY -9.031834e-06 0.0006795419 6.975393e-04  8.290249e-04  7.408294e-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,] 0.0234749
# 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,] 0.0003874105 0.009257152 0.005815626 0.005684463 0.002330248
rowSums(component_contribution)
## [1] 0.0234749
# 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 -0.0062313944 -0.0029356431  0.0366062975  0.052133618  4.992319e-02
## 2013-02-28  0.0058911870 -0.0231048248 -0.0129692976  0.016175211  1.267793e-02
## 2013-03-28  0.0009849471 -0.0102351212  0.0129692976  0.040258000  3.726828e-02
## 2013-04-30  0.0096389084  0.0120845930  0.0489677005  0.001222503  1.902936e-02
## 2013-05-31 -0.0202134078 -0.0494833224 -0.0306556296  0.041976249  2.333585e-02
## 2013-06-28 -0.0157786236 -0.0547285436 -0.0271442109 -0.001402777 -1.343443e-02
## 2013-07-31  0.0026878088  0.0131599496  0.0518601076  0.063541140  5.038618e-02
## 2013-08-30 -0.0082977748 -0.0257058570 -0.0197463931 -0.034743254 -3.045162e-02
## 2013-09-30  0.0111435496  0.0695888451  0.0753386814  0.063873551  3.115624e-02
## 2013-10-31  0.0082922064  0.0408615063  0.0320816635  0.034234141  4.526628e-02
## 2013-11-29 -0.0025097964 -0.0025941817  0.0054497179  0.041660922  2.920724e-02
## 2013-12-31 -0.0055831705 -0.0040740470  0.0215279453  0.012892142  2.559615e-02
## 2014-01-31  0.0152915793 -0.0903230688 -0.0534132453 -0.035775084 -3.588439e-02
## 2014-02-28  0.0037569381  0.0332205445  0.0595049838  0.045257141  4.451018e-02
## 2014-03-31 -0.0014815112  0.0380219517 -0.0046026549  0.013315306  8.261085e-03
## 2014-04-30  0.0081835763  0.0077726504  0.0165296121 -0.023184109  6.927694e-03
## 2014-05-30  0.0117216242  0.0290911140  0.0158283807  0.006205324  2.294127e-02
## 2014-06-30 -0.0005762010  0.0237337198  0.0091652403  0.037718535  2.043424e-02
## 2014-07-31 -0.0025119009  0.0135558451 -0.0263796025 -0.052009176 -1.352831e-02
## 2014-08-29  0.0114306548  0.0279046178  0.0018002804  0.043657851  3.870440e-02
## 2014-09-30 -0.0061675253 -0.0808568044 -0.0395984072 -0.061260606 -1.389212e-02
## 2014-10-31  0.0105845187  0.0140967334 -0.0026548858  0.068874860  2.327798e-02
## 2014-11-28  0.0065489038 -0.0155415682  0.0006253854  0.004773791  2.710153e-02
## 2014-12-31  0.0014750330 -0.0404420637 -0.0407467496  0.025295706 -2.540074e-03
## 2015-01-30  0.0203154369 -0.0068954611  0.0062265697 -0.054627960 -3.007711e-02
## 2015-02-27 -0.0089888415  0.0431356829  0.0614505865  0.056914600  5.468226e-02
## 2015-03-31  0.0037407160 -0.0150860192 -0.0143887489  0.010156537 -1.583061e-02
## 2015-04-30 -0.0032330575  0.0662813930  0.0358164419 -0.018417868  9.786065e-03
## 2015-05-29 -0.0043835034 -0.0419110539  0.0019527690  0.007510071  1.277406e-02
## 2015-06-30 -0.0108258315 -0.0297465802 -0.0316789046  0.004171341 -2.052132e-02
## 2015-07-31  0.0085850533 -0.0651783352  0.0201144652 -0.027375325  2.233802e-02
## 2015-08-31 -0.0033641788 -0.0925122172 -0.0771522768 -0.047268437 -6.288658e-02
## 2015-09-30  0.0080815251 -0.0318248759 -0.0451947314 -0.038464775 -2.584735e-02
## 2015-10-30  0.0006856085  0.0618083050  0.0640258955  0.063589825  8.163495e-02
## 2015-11-30 -0.0038982457 -0.0255604844 -0.0075561459  0.024415107  3.648548e-03
## 2015-12-31 -0.0019189840 -0.0389471705 -0.0235949565 -0.052157131 -1.743354e-02
## 2016-01-29  0.0123302026 -0.0516366428 -0.0567577631 -0.060307008 -5.106879e-02
## 2016-02-29  0.0088309883 -0.0082117307 -0.0339139210  0.020605333 -8.262158e-04
## 2016-03-31  0.0087089964  0.1218791540  0.0637454672  0.089910583  6.510001e-02
## 2016-04-29  0.0025465661  0.0040791679  0.0219752130  0.021044174  3.933711e-03
## 2016-05-31  0.0001354430 -0.0376286552 -0.0008559818  0.004397249  1.686853e-02
## 2016-06-30  0.0191665192  0.0445826519 -0.0244915330  0.008292066  3.469921e-03
## 2016-07-29  0.0054298247  0.0524418925  0.0390001700  0.049348448  3.582194e-02
## 2016-08-31 -0.0021562179  0.0087987151  0.0053268678  0.011260928  1.196610e-03
## 2016-09-30  0.0005161556  0.0248729131  0.0132791638  0.008614752  5.780091e-05
## 2016-10-31 -0.0082053062 -0.0083123579 -0.0224036234 -0.038134925 -1.748878e-02
## 2016-11-30 -0.0259898848 -0.0451617456 -0.0179745854  0.125246364  3.617599e-02
## 2016-12-30  0.0025378768 -0.0025300066  0.0267031167  0.031491978  2.006913e-02
## 2017-01-31  0.0021264319  0.0644316425  0.0323817564 -0.012143875  1.773659e-02
## 2017-02-28  0.0064378729  0.0172576947  0.0118363664  0.013428690  3.853902e-02
## 2017-03-31 -0.0005528926  0.0361890439  0.0318056821 -0.006532922  1.249175e-03
## 2017-04-28  0.0090292593  0.0168662675  0.0239523044  0.005107813  9.877366e-03
## 2017-05-31  0.0068472204  0.0280600796  0.0348101417 -0.022862475  1.401406e-02
## 2017-06-30 -0.0001826264  0.0092237832  0.0029559199  0.029151400  6.354788e-03
## 2017-07-31  0.0033344101  0.0565943473  0.0261879949  0.007481802  2.034578e-02
## 2017-08-31  0.0093693928  0.0232439220 -0.0004485071 -0.027564953  2.913602e-03
## 2017-09-29 -0.0057322330 -0.0004462966  0.0233429293  0.082321537  1.994902e-02
## 2017-10-31  0.0009779679  0.0322784443  0.0166537083  0.005916432  2.329060e-02
## 2017-11-30 -0.0014840876 -0.0038970090  0.0068698934  0.036913188  3.010813e-02
## 2017-12-29  0.0047402631  0.0369254493  0.0133984009 -0.003731035  1.205515e-02
calculate_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 %>% calculate_component_contribution(w = c(0.25, 0.25, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1))
## # 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 %>%  

    calculate_component_contribution(w = c(0.25, 0.25, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1)) %>%
    
    # Transform to long form
    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 %>%  

    calculate_component_contribution(w = c(0.25, 0.25, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1)) %>%
    
    # Transform to long form
    pivot_longer(cols = everything(), names_to = "Asset", values_to = "Contribution") %>% 

    # Add weights
    add_column(weight = c(0.25, 0.25, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1)) %>%
    
    # 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