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Abstract
Stress testing refers to the application of adverse financial or
macroeconomic scenarios to a portfolio. For this purpose, financial or
macroeconomic risk factors are linked with asset returns, typically via a
factor model. We expand the range of risk factors by adapting
dimension-reduction techniques from unsupervised learning, namely PCA and
autoencoders. This results in aggregated risk factors, encompassing a global
factor, factors representing broad geographical regions, and factors specific
to cyclical and defensive industries. As the adapted PCA and autoencoders
provide an interpretation of the latent factors, this methodology is also
valuable in other areas where dimension-reduction and explainability are
crucial.