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This paper explores option portfolio optimization when the underlying returns are skew-elliptical t-distributed. We use the variance and value at risk (VaR) to measure portfolio risk. The novelty of our work is the departure from the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-01 Kyle Sung , Traian A. Pirvu

This paper addresses the importance of incorporating various risk measures in portfolio management and proposes a dynamic hybrid portfolio optimization model that combines the spectral risk measure and the Value-at-Risk in the mean-variance…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-04-12 Weiping Wu , Yu Lin , Jianjun Gao , Ke Zhou

Upon compressing perceptually relevant signals, conventional quantization generally results in unnatural outcomes at low rates. We propose distribution preserving quantization (DPQ) to solve this problem. DPQ is a new quantization concept…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Minyue Li , Janusz Klejsa , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

We develop a novel multivariate semi-parametric framework for joint portfolio Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) forecasting. Unlike existing univariate semi-parametric approaches, the proposed framework explicitly models the…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-23 Giuseppe Storti , Chao Wang

This paper revisits and extends the 2013 development by Rockafellar and Uryasev of the Risk Quadrangle (RQ) as a unified scheme for integrating risk management, optimization, and statistical estimation. The RQ features four…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Bogdan Grechuk , Anton Malandii , Terry Rockafellar , Stan Uryasev

Differential sensitivity measures provide valuable tools for interpreting complex computational models used in applications ranging from simulation to algorithmic prediction. Taking the derivative of the model output in direction of a model…

Computation · Statistics 2024-10-03 Silvana M. Pesenti , Pietro Millossovich , Andreas Tsanakas

Value-at-risk (VaR) has been playing the role of a standard risk measure since its introduction. In practice, the delta-normal approach is usually adopted to approximate the VaR of portfolios with option positions. Its effectiveness,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-22 Junyao Chen , Tony Sit , Hoi Ying Wong

Many investment models in discrete or continuous-time settings boil down to maximizing an objective of the quantile function of the decision variable. This quantile optimization problem is known as the quantile formulation of the original…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-01-07 Zuo Quan Xu

In this paper, we propose a general bi-objective model for portfolio selection, aiming to maximize both a diversification measure and the portfolio expected return. Within this general framework, we focus on maximizing a diversification…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-12-18 Francesco Cesarone , Rosella Giacometti , Manuel Luis Martino , Fabio Tardella

Expected Shortfall (ES) is the average return on a risky asset conditional on the return being below some quantile of its distribution, namely its Value-at-Risk (VaR). The Basel III Accord, which will be implemented in the years leading up…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-07-18 Andrew J. Patton , Johanna F. Ziegel , Rui Chen

The paper explores the concept of the \emph{expectile risk measure} within the framework of the Fundamental Risk Quadrangle (FRQ) theory. According to the FRQ theory, a quadrangle comprises four stochastic functions associated with a random…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-07-13 Viktor Kuzmenko , Anton Malandii , Stan Uryasev

Although quantile regression to calculate risk measures has been widely established in the financial literature, when considering data observed at mixed--frequency, an extension is needed. In this paper, a model is suggested built on a…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-17 Vincenzo Candila , Giampiero M. Gallo , Lea Petrella

This study explores the use of Transformer-based models to predict both covariance and semi-covariance matrices for ETF portfolio optimization. Traditional portfolio optimization techniques often rely on static covariance estimates or…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-02 Jiahao Zhu , Hengzhi Wu

Variable division and optimization (D\&O) is a frequently utilized algorithm design paradigm in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). A D\&O EA divides a variable into partial variables and then optimize them respectively. A complicated problem is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Yi Chen , Aimin Zhou

In this paper we propose a multivariate quantile regression framework to forecast Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) of multiple financial assets simultaneously, extending Taylor (2019). We generalize the Multivariate…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-19 Luca Merlo , Lea Petrella , Valentina Raponi

Portfolio optimization is a fundamental problem in finance that aims to determine the optimal allocation of assets within a portfolio to maximize returns while minimizing risk. It can be formulated as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Anbang Wang , Zhonggang Lv , Zhenyuan Ma , Dunbo Cai , Zhihong Zhang

Quantile regression, the prediction of conditional quantiles, finds applications in various fields. Often, some or all of the variables are discrete. The authors propose two new quantile regression approaches to handle such mixed…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-24 Niklas Schallhorn , Daniel Kraus , Thomas Nagler , Claudia Czado

The quantum algorithms for Monte Carlo integration (QMCI), which are based on quantum amplitude estimation (QAE), speed up expected value calculation compared with classical counterparts, and have been widely investigated along with their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Koichi Miyamoto

The mean-variance portfolio that considers the trade-off between expected return and risk has been widely used in the problem of asset allocation for multi-asset portfolios. However, since it is difficult to estimate the expected return and…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-02-22 Yusuke Uchiyama , Kei Nakagawa

The main objective of this work is to calculate the multivariate double truncated expectation (MDTE) and covariance (MDTCov) for elliptical distributions. We also consider double truncated expectation (DTE) and variance (DTV) for univariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Baishuai Zuo , Chuancun Yin