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### Why is Markowitz portfolio optimisation so popular considering it is worse than an equal weighted portfolio?

Markowitz's concepts attracted a great deal of interest from theorists (and still do), but never had much application in practice. The results from practical application were always disappointing (...
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### Current industry standard for (active/passive) portfolio optimizations

I am a professor of finance who has spent his life working in the capital markets in operations, sales, compliance, and research. I would love to tell you about the existence of industry standards, ...
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### cvxpy portfolio optimization with risk budgeting

The underlying problem: your ACTR constraints aren't convex The $i$th constraint on your risk contribution can be written: $$w_i \sum_j \sigma_{ij} w_j \leq c_i s$$ And this isn't a convex ...
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### Random Portfolios vs Efficient Frontier

You seem to have two distinct problems: How to generate random portfolios How optimal portfolios are structured Ad 1) A straightforward way to simulate the weights of random portfolios is to use ...
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### Portfolio Optimization and Global Minimum Variance Portfolio (GMV)

1) To be honest, any horizon is problematic in this respect. Simple sampling statistics 101 will tell you that the standard error around any estimate of true mean returns is the root time * variance. ...
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### Can a capital market line have a negative slope?

Two separate cases were identified by R.C. Merton in 1972: In the economically more relevant case, where $r_f < b/c$, efficient portfolios are combinations of a long position in [the tangency] ...
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### Why does portfolio optimization require a positive-definite covariance matrix?

To supplement the other answer, yes there are optimization reasons for the covariance matrix being symmetric positive definite (SPD). All positive definite matrices are invertible and its inverse is ...
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### Which portfolio is more "diversified": the $\frac{1}{N}$, the MDP or the max decorrelation?

First of all, I am not sure what you mean by the ratio in your second point. However, I will try to give you a partial answer at least. There is a very comprehensive overview of these by EDHEC, page 4....
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### Mean Variance Portfolio theory and real-world problem?

Mean-variance (MV) is a framework rather than a prescription. This framework allows one to make, discuss, and defend his investment decision. In practice, there are many ways to make adjustments to ...