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More than seventy years ago Harry Markowitz formulated portfolio construction as an optimization problem that trades off expected return and risk, defined as the standard deviation of the portfolio returns. Since then the method has been…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-01-11 Stephen Boyd , Kasper Johansson , Ronald Kahn , Philipp Schiele , Thomas Schmelzer

Population-based metaheuristic algorithms are powerful tools in the design of neutron scattering instruments and the use of these types of algorithms for this purpose is becoming more and more commonplace. Today there exists a wide range of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 D. D. DiJulio , H. Björgvinsdóttir , C. Zendler , P. M. Bentley

Markowitz mean-variance portfolios with sample mean and covariance as input parameters feature numerous issues in practice. They perform poorly out of sample due to estimation error, they experience extreme weights together with high…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-12-29 Wolfgang Karl Härdle , Yegor Klochkov , Alla Petukhina , Nikita Zhivotovskiy

Since decades, the data science community tries to propose prediction models of financial time series. Yet, driven by the rapid development of information technology and machine intelligence, the velocity of today's information leads to…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-09-25 Giovanni Mariani , Yada Zhu , Jianbo Li , Florian Scheidegger , Roxana Istrate , Costas Bekas , A. Cristiano I. Malossi

This study proposes a novel artificial protozoa optimizer (APO) that is inspired by protozoa in nature. The APO mimics the survival mechanisms of protozoa by simulating their foraging, dormancy, and reproductive behaviors. The APO was…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Xiaopeng Wang , Vaclav Snasel , Seyedali Mirjalili , Jeng-Shyang Pan , Lingping Kong , Hisham A. Shehadeh

We present a detailed study of portfolio optimization using different versions of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). For a given list of assets, the portfolio optimization problem is formulated as quadratic binary…

Markowitz' celebrated optimal portfolio theory generally fails to deliver out-of-sample diversification. In this note, we propose a new portfolio construction strategy based on symmetry arguments only, leading to "Eigenrisk Parity"…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-10-28 Raphael Benichou , Yves Lempérière , Emmanuel Sérié , Julien Kockelkoren , Philip Seager , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Marc Potters

The field of portfolio selection is an active research topic, which combines elements and methodologies from various fields, such as optimization, decision analysis, risk management, data science, forecasting, etc. The modeling and…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-28 A. Georgantas

This paper is concerned with portfolio optimization models for creating high-quality lists of recommended items to balance the accuracy and diversity of recommendations. However, the statistics (i.e., expectation and covariance of ratings)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Tomoya Yanagi , Shunnosuke Ikeda , Yuichi Takano

Effectively encoding inequality constraints is a primary obstacle in applying quantum algorithms to financial optimization. A quantum model for Markowitz portfolio optimization is presented that resolves this by embedding slack variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Pablo Thomassin , Guillaume Guerard , Sonia Djebali , Vincent Marc Lambert

We consider convex constrained optimization problems that also include a cardinality constraint. In general, optimization problems with cardinality constraints are difficult mathematical programs which are usually solved by global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Nataša Krejić , Evelin H. M. Krulikovski , Marcos Raydan

The cardinality-constrained mean-variance portfolio problem has garnered significant attention within contemporary finance due to its potential for achieving low risk while effectively managing risks and transaction costs. Instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Ahmad Mousavi , George Michailidis

Optimal selection of interdependent IT Projects for implementation in multi periods has been challenging in the framework of real option valuation. This paper presents a mathematical optimization model for multi-stage portfolio of IT…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Shashank Pushkar , Abhijit Mustafi , Akhileshwar Mishra

This research is focused on solving problems in the area of software project management using metaheuristic search algorithms and as such is research in the field of search based software engineering. The main aim of this research is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Andy M. Connor , Amit Shah

This paper is devoted to study the optimal portfolio problem. Harry Markowitz's Ph.D. thesis prepared the ground for the mathematical theory of finance. In modern portfolio theory, we typically find asset returns that are modeled by a…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-06-30 Hassan Omidi Firouzi , Andrew Luong

Markowitz's optimal portfolio relies on the accurate estimation of correlations between asset returns, a difficult problem when the number of observations is not much larger than the number of assets. Using powerful results from random…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-24 Tomas Espana , Victor Le Coz , Matteo Smerlak

Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are important components of artificial intelligence, and are increasingly used across disciplines to tackle various types of challenging optimization problems. This paper demonstrates the usefulness…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Elvis Han Cui , Zizhao Zhang , Culsome Junwen Chen , Weng Kee Wong

This work aims to deal with the optimal allocation instability problem of Markowitz's modern portfolio theory in high dimensionality. We propose a combined strategy that considers covariance matrix estimators from Random Matrix Theory~(RMT)…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-03-10 Andrés García-Medina , Benito Rodriguéz-Camejo

We propose a novel portfolio selection approach that manages to ease some of the problems that characterise standard expected utility maximisation. The optimal portfolio is no longer defined as the extremum of a suitably chosen utility…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Rossi , M. Tavoni , F. Cocco , R. Marschinski

Portfolio optimization is one of the most studied optimization problems at the intersection of quantum computing and finance. In this work, we develop the first quantum formulation for a portfolio optimization problem with higher-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Valter Uotila , Julia Ripatti , Bo Zhao