I am trying to find possible correlations between classical investment tools like equities, commodities, forex etc with alternative investments like art indices. Could you suggest me an advaced statistical, econometrical methodology?
For each of the asset groups you need a return series. In the case of equities you may choose a stock market index. If you a finer grouping there may be an appropriate sectoral index ot otherwiseconstruct a portfolio of the required form. The other asset groups likee forex can be similarly calculateCd from an aggregate index or portfolio.
Art as a portfolio can be tracked using vaeiuos art investment fund returns. These are not dissimilar to property trusts or real estate investment trusts.You might be surp4ised to find the number of coll3ctible investment funds there are. There was/is a barbie doll index.
Once you have the portfolios you can calculate common period returns. These timeseries can be correlated using a parametric or nonparametric approach.
It could be rolling correlation, Evolutionary Co-spectral Analysis, Wavelet coherence, wavelet correlation based on MODWT decomposition, provided it's a high frequency data.
If you think of ART instruments such as cat bonds they are known to be non correlated with market indexes, which is why they are attractive. A couple of surveys seem to validate this assertion.
http://artemundiglob.com provides some potentially useful information on art investment fund. This next piece shows correlation with market in figure 3;a nice zero beta portfolio.