Portfolio implementation risk management using evolutionary multiobjective optimization

Portfoliomanagementbasedonmean-varianceportfoliooptimizationissubjecttodifferent sources of uncertainty. In addition to those related to the quality of parameter estimates used in the optimization process, investors face a portfolio implementation risk. The potential temporary discrepancybetweentarg...

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Main Author: Quintana, David (author)
Other Authors: Denysiuk, Roman (author), Garcia-Rodriguez, Sandra (author), Gaspar-Cunha, A. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/53022
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/53022
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Summary:Portfoliomanagementbasedonmean-varianceportfoliooptimizationissubjecttodifferent sources of uncertainty. In addition to those related to the quality of parameter estimates used in the optimization process, investors face a portfolio implementation risk. The potential temporary discrepancybetweentargetandpresentportfolios,causedbytradingstrategies,mayexposeinvestors to undesired risks. This study proposes an evolutionary multiobjective optimization algorithm aiming at regions with solutions more tolerant to these deviations and, therefore, more reliable. The proposed approach incorporates a user’s preference and seeks a fine-grained approximation of the most relevant efficient region. The computational experiments performed in this study are based on a cardinality-constrained problem with investment limits for eight broad-category indexes and 15 years of data. The obtained results show the ability of the proposed approach to address the robustness issue and to support decision making by providing a preferred part of the efficient set. The results reveal that the obtained solutions also exhibit a higher tolerance to prediction errors in asset returns and variance–covariance matrix.