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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
