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An algorithm for the orthogonal decomposition of financial return data

Portfolio Management 2014-11-19 v3 Computational Finance

Abstract

We present an algorithm for the decomposition of periodic financial return data into orthogonal factors of expected return and "systemic", "productive", and "nonproductive" risk. Generally, when the number of funds does not exceed the number of periods, the expected return of a portfolio is an affine function of its productive risk.

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@article{arxiv.1206.2333,
  title  = {An algorithm for the orthogonal decomposition of financial return data},
  author = {Vic Norton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.2333},
  year   = {2014}
}

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