This paper examines the so called 1/n investment puzzle which has been observed in defined contribution plans whereby some participants divide their contributions equally among the available asset classes. It has been argued that this is a very naive strategy since it contradicts the fundamental tenets of modern portfolio theory. We use simple arguments to show that this behavior is perhaps les...

Data warehouses are characterized in general by heterogeneous data sources providing information with different levels of quality. In such environments many data quality approaches address the importance of defining the term “data quality” by a set of dimensions and providing according metrics. The benefit is the additional quality information during the analytical processing of the data. In th...

The present paper investigates the portfolio allocation decisions of an investor with infinite horizon when available financial assets differ in their degrees of liquidity. A model with risk neutral agents allows us to endogenously determine the liquidity premium. With risk averse agents, we develop a nontrivial portfolio allocation problem, which enables us to calculate the demand for an illiq...

We solve, theoretically and numerically, the problems of optimal portfolio choice and indifference valuation in a general continuous-time setting. The setting features (i) ambiguity and ambiguity averse preferences, (ii) discontinuities in the asset price processes, with a general and possibly infinite activity jump part next to a continuous diffusion part, and (iii) general and possibly non-co...

Markowitz model is the first modern formulation of portfolio optimization problem. Relyingon historical return of stocks as basic information and using variance as a risk measure aretow drawbacks of this model. Since Markowitz model has been presented, many effortshave been done to remove theses drawbacks. On one hand several better risk measures havebeen introduced and proper models have been ...

The existence of an active and prosperous capital market is always recognized as one of the signs of international development in the countries. The most important issue faced by investors in these markets is the decision to choose the appropriate securities for investment and formation of optimal portfolio. The rating of companies accepted in stock exchange is a complete mirror of their status...

Portfolio management in finance is more than a mathematical problem of optimizing performance under risk constraints. A critical factor in practical portfolio problems is severe uncertainty – ignorance – due to model uncertainty. In this paper, we show how to find the best portfolios by adapting the standard risk-return criterion for portfolio selection to the case of severe uncertainty, such a...

The portfolio is a perfect combination of stock or assets, which an investor buys them. The objective of the portfolio is to divide the investment risk among several shares. Using non-parametric DEA and DEA-R methods can be of great significance in estimating portfolio. In the present paper, the efficient portfolio is estimated by using non-radial DEA and DEA-R models. By proposing non-radial m...