Reference
Rigamonti, A., & Lucivjanska, K. (2022). Mean-Semivariance Portfolio Optimization Using Minimum Average Partial. Annals of Operations Research. (ABS_2021: 3; VHB_3: B)
Publication type
Article in Scientific Journal
Abstract
Mean-semivariance and minimum semivariance portfolios are a preferable alternative to mean-variance and minimum variance portfolios whenever the asset returns are not symmetrically distributed. However, similarly to other portfolios based on downside risk measures, they typically perform poorly in practice because the estimates of the necessary inputs are less reliable than the estimates of the full covariance matrix. We address this problem by performing PCA using the Minimum Average Partial on the downside correlation matrix in order to reduce the dimension of the problem and, with it, the estimation errors. We apply our strategy to several datasets and show that it greatly improves the performance of mean-semivariance optimization, largely closing the gap in out-of-sample performance with the strategies based on the covariance matrix.
Persons
Organizational Units
- Chair in Finance
- Institute for Finance