The professional management of an investment portfolio of various securities (shares, bonds and other securities) in order to meet specified investment goals. The process includes the specification of investment objectives and constraints, choice of asset mix, formulation of portfolio strategy, ...
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Portfolio software that shows 'total return' for each investment
I'm a high school technology teacher and sponsor for the Charity Student Investment Project. Currently our students track our investment portfolio via a google spreadsheet ...
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Comparing MVO with Resampled Efficient Frontier
My question: How can I compare the Resampled Frontier (REF) to the standard MVO frontier when I have been provided with $\mu$, $\Omega$, and don't have access to true future data to test real out of ...
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Risk Budgets with Target Portfolio Volatility
I'm working through the implementation of a risk budgeting approach as described in the recent Roncalli paper. The idea is that the portfolio manager sets a contribution of total portfolio volatility ...
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How to adjust local currency returns to US$/EUR return?
Iam doing research on return characteristics. As of today the scope of the research has changed from a local investor point of view to an international investor point of view. This basically means ...
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Desired portfolio volume
I am working on a toy model, in part of which an investor has to decide (based on some utility theory) how much money to invest in a given portfolio. For simplicity, assume that the portfolio is ...
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Calculating Geometric mean
I need to annualize daily returns for about 120 firms for over a period of 10 years. I chose to calculate the geometric return because 1) it is the actual return 2) to avoid the asymmetric effect of ...
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How to correctly construct a value- and equally weighted portfolio consisting of property-types?
A problem of which I couldn’t find the answer on the forum is about the construction of equally-weighted and value-weighted portfolio.
I want to compute the equally-weighted property-type portfolio ...
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Portfolio risk-return when assets have limited and inconsistent historical data / time series?
Lets say we have "today's" snapshot of asset allocation and need to determine the 6mo, 1 yr and 5 yr risk and returns of this portfolio. If the time series for every asset is very long, longer than ...
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Why does the minimum variance portfolio provide good returns?
I've been a researching minimum variance portfolios (from this link) and find that by building MVPs adding constraints on portfolio weights and a few other tweaks to the methods outlined I get ...
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Find a paper about portfolio management
Where to find the following paper of the noble prize Paul Samuelson (2003) “When and Why Mean-Variance Analysis Generically Fails,”. I was looking for it desperately on Google and Google Scholar but ...
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Optimization procedure for entropy pooling
I was wondering if those who used the entropy pooling code provided by Attilio Meucci had issues with the optimization procedure (especially regarding the fminunc function in Matlab). When I stress ...
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Modelling VIX Futures for risk management
I would like to model VIX futures. The aim is not pricing but risk management. Thus I want to get risk measures like volatility right and be able to accurately calculate correlations when the VIX ...
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Robust Bayesian portfolio optimization in matlab?
I am working through this paper.
I want to implement the robust Bayesian optimization (see pages 6 onward) in Matlab using fmincon.
Here is a brief overview of my problem:
Let $\alpha$ be the ...
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How to use mean-variance weights in practice (when going short is allowed)? [closed]
I have calculated my optimal portfolio weights following the mean-variance framework where I go $w_1$ in the risky asset and $1-w_1$ in the risk free rate.
I get the following result: $w_1$ = 1.5, ...
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What do the terms in-sample and out-of-sample estimates mean in MVO?
How do the in-sample estimates and out-of-sample estimates I so often hear authors refer to in emperical analysis of MVO differ?
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Why do low standard deviation stocks tend to have superior future returns?
I've recently stumbled on something that really surprised me. These papers (1, 2) find that past standard deviation of returns is inversely related to future returns. That is, portfolio of low ...
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Analyzing the angle between vector of weights and vector of returns in mean-variance optimization
I am using the paper "A Sharper Angle on Optimization" by Golts and Jones (2009) as a basis for my (minor) masters thesis in mathematical finance. The paper focuses on the mean-variance analysis of ...
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portfolio optimisation with VaR (or CVaR) constraints
I would like to optimize a portfolio allocation (maximizing the exposure or the expected return), but with VaR or CVaR contraints. (some parts of my portfolio cannot exceed a certain VaR)
How can I ...
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Optimizing a currency only portfolio with negative weights
I am testing various optimization methods for a currency-only portfolio. I have a vector of expected returns for the major developed currencies vs. the USD each week (based on a proprietary model). I ...
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Determining portfolio risk return in R given historical data for individual holdings?
Currently we compute portfolio risk and return via our own C# program. Historical data is stored in a SQL database. We want to compute the risk and return parameters - given a portfolio (i.e. not ...
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Are there any tools or useful algos for identifying corner portfolios?
Let's say I am performing mean-variance optimization subject to some weight constraints.
I'd like to identify the set of corner portfolios so that I can interpolate the entire efficient frontier. A ...
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Should the average investor hold commodities as part of a broadly diversified portfolio?
Many mutual funds sell "asset allocation" products which include appropriately sized investments in a variety of asset classes meant for a prototypical investor. Some of these, such as PIMCO, even ...
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How to build an electricity portfolio for an electricity production company?
I am referring to an electricity production company. Company is located in AsiaPac. The power is generated using Natural Gas fired combined-cycle power plants. Then this electricity is distributed to ...
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Does entropy pooling apply to distributions with time-varying drift?
I have a returns process that is drawn from a normal distribution with a nonlinear time-varying drift, so I was wondering if the entropy pooling method still applies or if I need an invariant ?
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How can I use Entropy-pooling of Atillio Meucci to constuct a portfolio?
I am trying to get my hands on Entropy Pooling which was introduced by Meucci in this paper.
As an example, assume I want to construct a portfolio with five stocks and I have my view on CVaR.
How ...
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Expected length and depth of drawdown
Does anyone know of any model to estimate the distribution of drawdown length and depth assuming a certain portfolio dynamics? The arcsine law seems to suggest that a portfolio can spend a large ...
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Using alpha to evaluate trading strategy
I have a trading strategy that generates returns $R_{t}$. I want to test the strategy by looking at the alpha:
$R_t - R_{f,t} = \alpha + \beta (R_{m,t} - R_{f,t}) + e_t$
I compare my alpha against ...
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Calculating the right portfolio(position size for each leg) in a Long/Short Strategy
For a Long/Short Strategy, I have two stocks with different volatilities. How can I calculate the right position size for each leg?
*The pair trading is not coming from co-integration but more as a ...
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Minimum variance hedge with more than one asset
My portfolio comprises of 3 assets A,B,C that are correlated and the variance-covariance structure is known. At any given point in time, my position in Asset A say is given to me.
I need to ...
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constructing a minimum variance portfolio
Assume a US-based company has sold something to a Norwegian company. It will receive 1M Norwegian Kroner in two months, and would like to hedge this future cash flow against currency exchange risk.
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Michaud's Resampled Efficient Frontier - Out of Sample Simulation Testing
I will be putting ALL my account points on bounty to whoever answers this question [if your answer is crap but it's the only answer, you're getting the 165 points]. You will have to wait 2 days or so ...
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Resampled efficient frontier length of simulation
I was provided with a VBA program from my lecturer that applies the resampled efficient frontier. We have an investment horizon $T$ (6 years) and he uses a multivariate normal distribution with ...
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Does amortization of bond start accumulating on trade date or settlement date?
I am sorry if this is not appropriate here. We are building a wealth management system and I really would like to know whether amortization of bond start accumulating on trade date or settlement date ...
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Risk-Parity Portfolio Optimization using Extreme Optimization in C#
I'm trying to create a risk-parity portfolio in C# using the Extreme Optimization routines.
I'm mostly trying them out to see if I like them or not before I buy them (I'm a student so money is ...
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Multi asset option portfolio risk management (greeks and FX exposure)
I am running an options book containing listed options across multiple products. I trade mostly equity and index related options - with a preference for European expiration products. I trade products ...
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How to run an asset replication regression?
I am doing extensive research on portfolio replication and was hoping to get some help with some problems I am encountering.
I am running a regression between 2 assets that I believe replicate ...
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Looking for FpML best practices
We want start using FpML within our organisation; where message will be sent using FpML.
What are best practices to do this ?
If anyone who have used Tools as well as; i want to use FpML for ...
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What is the case for active management?
A recent personal finance question asks when to hire an investment professional? Given that many of us here are on the professional manager side of the business, how would you make the case? What ...
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Methods for distributing cash into allocation
Are there any methods/techniques that cover distributing cash into a specific percent of a portfolio asset class while gaining the best average price?
As a simple example, a portfolio starts with ...
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Calculating portfolio allocation beta with different asset classes?
I'd like to calculate portfolio allocation beta on a portfolio that has different asset classes. The portfolio may be made up of:
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What are the limits of bond portfolio immunization against interest rate changes?
I'm currently reading through an article on bond portfolio immunization against changes in the interest rate.
I learned that the immunization can be done against instant changes in interest rate ...
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How to Quantify Headwinds
What are some of the best ways to effectively measure headwinds for an open ended fund? Headwinds in this case refers to the amount of volatility contributed by a factor or a set of factors to a ...
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How do I calculate the skewness of a portfolio of assets?
I need to calculate the skewness of a portfolio consisting of 6 assets. I know that for that I would need the co-skewness matrix between the assets. Does anybody know the formula for co-skewness or ...
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Trading Strategies and Portfolio Constructions based on Cross Sectional Regression? [closed]
I often see trading strategies and portfolio construction that are based on cross-sectional regression. For example, I often see regressing some numbers against some factors.
I was wondering how ...
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cointegration applied to Portfolio Construction & Risk management
There are all sorts of applications of cointegration to generating alpha on mean-reverting timeseries: comparing spot vs. futures, bond spreads, identifying mean-reverting residuals, etc.
But there ...
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Is there a standard method of scaling alpha forecasts to t-cost estimates?
Given a set of monthly alpha forecasts (i.e. standardized z-scores from a multi-factor return model) and a non-linear market impact model (or more specifically, its piecewise-linear approximation), is ...
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What type of investor is willing to be short gamma?
As far as I understand, most investors are willing to buy options (puts and calls) in order to limit their exposure to the market in case it moves against them. This is due to the fact that they are ...
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Can I perform an asset allocation optimization if assets are perfectly uncorrelated?
(Here is a link to the original post)
I received this interesting problem from a friend today:
Assume that you are a portfolio manager with $10 million to allocate to hedge funds. The due diligence ...
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How to compute performance attribution between daily rebalanced strategies?
I have a daily rebalanced portfolio of several strategies.
After one month, I now want to attribute the performance to the different strategies. There are several ways to do it.
For instance one ...
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Why do expected return models and risk models use different factors?
This is a question responding to weekly topic challenge. I happen to see an interesting question from SYMMYS by Michael Kapler.
I always approached expected return and risk modeling as separate
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