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One of the problems frequently mentioned as a candidate for quantum advantage is that of selecting a portfolio of financial assets to maximize returns while minimizing risk. In this paper we formulate several real-world constraints for use…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-10 Salvatore Certo , Anh Dung Pham , Daniel Beaulieu

The potential benefits of portfolio diversification have been known to investors for a long time. Markowitz (1952) suggested the seminal approach for optimizing the portfolio problem based on finding the weights as budget shares that…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2019-03-05 Abdulnasser Hatemi-J , Mohamed Ali Hajji , Youssef El-Khatib

In this work, we consider weighted signed network representations of financial markets derived from raw or denoised correlation matrices, and examine how negative edges can be exploited to reduce portfolio risk. We then propose a discrete…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-08 Bibhas Adhikari

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

Portfolio diversification is one of the most effective ways to minimize investment risk. Individuals and fund managers aim to create a portfolio of assets that not only have high returns but are also uncorrelated. This goal can be achieved…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Moein Owhadi-Kareshk , Pierre Boulanger

Quantum algorithms have gained increasing attention for addressing complex combinatorial problems in finance, notably portfolio optimization. This study systematically benchmarks two prominent variational quantum approaches, Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Nouhaila Innan , Ayesha Saleem , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Portfolio optimization (PO) is extensively employed in financial services to assist in achieving investment objectives. By providing an optimal asset allocation, PO effectively balances the risk and returns associated with investments.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Zhijie Tang , Alex Lu Dou , Arit Kumar Bishwas

This paper studies the multi-period mean-variance portfolio allocation problem with transaction costs. Many methods have been proposed these last years to challenge the famous uni-period Markowitz strategy.But these methods cannot integrate…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-21 Areski Cousin , Jérôme Lelong , Tom Picard

Markowitz (1952, 1959) laid down the ground-breaking work on the mean-variance analysis. Under his framework, the theoretical optimal allocation vector can be very different from the estimated one for large portfolios due to the intrinsic…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-16 Jianqing Fan , Jingjin Zhang , Ke Yu

Recent studies stressed the fact that covariance matrices computed from empirical financial time series appear to contain a high amount of noise. This makes the classical Markowitz Mean-Variance Optimization model unable to correctly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Justo Puerto , Federica Ricca , Moisés Rodríguez-Madrena , Andrea Scozzari

We consider how to optimally allocate investments in a portfolio of competing technologies using the standard mean-variance framework of portfolio theory. We assume that technologies follow the empirically observed relationship known as…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2018-08-28 Rupert Way , François Lafond , Fabrizio Lillo , Valentyn Panchenko , J. Doyne Farmer

Markowitz's celebrated mean--variance portfolio optimization theory assumes that the means and covariances of the underlying asset returns are known. In practice, they are unknown and have to be estimated from historical data. Plugging the…

Applications · Statistics 2011-08-05 Tze Leung Lai , Haipeng Xing , Zehao Chen

This paper studies the mean-variance optimal portfolio choice of an investor pre-committed to a deterministic investment policy in continuous time in a market with mean-reversion in the risk-free rate and the equity risk-premium. In the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-07 Michael Preisel

We propose a scalable, policy-centric framework for continuous-time multi-asset portfolio-consumption optimization under inequality constraints. Our method integrates neural policies with Pontryagin's Maximum Principle (PMP) and enforces…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-07 Jeonggyu Huh , Jaegi Jeon , Hyeng Keun Koo , Byung Hwa Lim

We continue to investigate the use of quantum computers for building an optimal portfolio out of a universe of 60 U.S. listed, liquid equities. Starting from historical market data, we apply our unique problem formulation on the D-Wave…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-08-21 Jeffrey Cohen , Alex Khan , Clark Alexander

The first quantum computers are expected to perform well at quadratic optimisation problems. In this paper a quadratic problem in finance is taken, the Portfolio Optimisation problem. Here, a set of assets is chosen for investment, such…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-12-03 Frank Phillipson , Harshil Singh Bhatia

Designing an optimum portfolio for allocating suitable weights to its constituent assets so that the return and risk associated with the portfolio are optimized is a computationally hard problem. The seminal work of Markowitz that attempted…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-09-26 Abhiraj Sen , Jaydip Sen

In this paper, the mean-variance portfolio selection problem with Poisson jumps are studied, where the recursive utility is given by the solution to a backward stochastic differential equation with Poisson jumps. Both the maximum principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Qiyue Zhang , Jingtao Shi

Traditional Markowitz portfolio optimization constrains daily portfolio variance to a target value, optimising returns, Sharpe or variance within this constraint. However, this approach overlooks the relationship between variance at…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-22 Revant Nayar , Raphael Douady