The portfolio optimization is one of the fundamental problems in asset management that aims to reduce the risk of an investment by diversifying it into assets expected to fluctuate independently. A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their funds counterparts, including mutual, exchange- traded and closed fun...

We quantify the effect of a significant technological innovation, shale oil development, on asset prices. Using stock price changes on major news announcement days allows us to link aggregate stock price changes to shale development activity as well as other oil supply shocks. We exploit cross-sectional variation in industry portfolio returns on announcement days to construct a shale mimicking ...

This study applied a prediction-based portfolio optimization model to explore the results of portfolio predicament in the Tehran Stock Exchange. To this aim, first, the data mining approach was used to predict the petroleum products and chemical industry using clustering stock market data. Then, some effective factors, such as crude oil price, exchange rate, global interest rate, gold price, an...

in the portfolio selection problem, the manager considers several objectives simultaneously such as the rate of return, the liquidity and the risk of portfolios. these objectives are conflicting and incommensurable. moreover, the objectives can be imprecise. generally, the portfolio manager seeks the best combination of the stocks that meets his investment objectives. the imprecise goal program...

This paper studies the optimal investment strategy of an investor who can access not only the bond and the stock markets, but also the derivatives market. We focus on the investment situation where, in addition to the usual diffusive price shocks, the stock market experiences sudden price jumps and stochastic volatility, and provide closed-form solutions to the dynamic portfolio problem involvi...

In the portfolio selection problem, the manager considers several objectives simultaneously such as the rate of return, the liquidity and the risk of portfolios. These objectives are conflicting and incommensurable. Moreover, the objectives can be imprecise. Generally, the portfolio manager seeks the best combination of the stocks that meets his investment objectives. The imprecise Goal Program...

in this paper, in order to optimize the portfolio consisting of selected industrial stocks of petroleum products, automobiles and parts, electrical industry and extraction of minerals from tehran stock exchange member, first, time – varying conditional covariance matrix has been estimated based on the following multivariate garch models: diagonal-vech (1,1), ccc (1,1) and diagonal -bekk (1,1). ...

It is well known that the wealthier the household, the larger tends to be the proportion of its total capital portfolio allocated to publicly traded stock, and the larger tends to be the number of individual stock issues included in its portfolio. Using the “homogeneous securities” case of a mean-variance model originally proposed by Michael Brennan, explicit functional forms are obtained for b...

This paper describes the DEA-based investment strategy for constructing of a stock portfolio in the Croatian stock market. The relative efficiency of the DMUs, which are in this case the selected stocks from Zagreb Stock Exchange, is obtained from the output oriented CCR and BCC models. The set of inputs consists of risk measures, namely return variance, Value at Risk (VaR) and beta coefficient...