Portfolio selection is an important issue for researchers and practitioners. Compared with the conventional probabilistic mean-variance method, fuzzy number can better describe an uncertain environment with vagueness and ambiguity. In this paper, the portfolio selection model with transaction costs and lending is proposed by means of possibilistic mean and possibilistic variance under the assum...

The problemof selection and the best option are themain subject of operation research science in decision-making theory. Selection is a process that scrutinizes and investigates several quantitative and qualitative, and most often incompatible, factors. One of the most fundamental management issues in multicriteria selection literature is the multicriteria adoption of the projects portfolio. In...

This paper proposes downside risk measure models in portfolio selection that captures uncertainties both in distribution and in parameters. The worst-case distribution with given information on the mean value and the covariance matrix is used, together with ellipsoidal and polytopic uncertainty sets, to build-up this type of downside risk model. As an application of the models, the tracking err...

The mean-variance-leverage (MVL) optimization model (Jacobs and Levy [2012, 2013]) tackles an issue not dealt with by the mean-variance optimization inherent in the general mean-variance portfolio selection model (GPSM) — that is, the impact on investor utility of the risks that are unique to using leverage. Relying on leverage constraints with a conventional GPSM, as is commonly done today, is...

Conventionally, portfolio selection problems are solved with quadratic or linear programming models. However, the solutions obtained by these methods are in real numbers and difficult to implement because each asset usually has its minimum transaction lot. Methods considering minimum transaction lots were developed based on some linear portfolio optimization models. However, no study has ever i...

This paper employs fuzzy set theory to solve the unintuitive problem of the Markowitz meanvariance MV portfolio model and extend it to a fuzzy investment portfolio selection model. Our model establishes intervals for expected returns and risk preference, which can take into account investors’ different investment appetite and thus can find the optimal resolution for each interval. In the empiri...