Cvar-Based Robust Models For Portfolio Selection

This study relaxes the distributional assumption of the return of the risky asset, to arrive at the optimal portfolio. Studies of portfolio selection models have typically assumed that stock returns conform to the normal distribution. The application of robust optimization techniques means that only...

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Main Authors: Sun, Y., Aw, E.L.G., Li, Bin, Teo, Kok Lay, Sun, Jie
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91432
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Summary:This study relaxes the distributional assumption of the return of the risky asset, to arrive at the optimal portfolio. Studies of portfolio selection models have typically assumed that stock returns conform to the normal distribution. The application of robust optimization techniques means that only the historical mean and variance of asset returns are required instead of distributional information. We show that the method results in an optimal portfolio that has comparable return and yet equivalent risk, to one that assumes normality of asset returns.