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Diversification and limited information in the Kelly game

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  • Medo, Matúš
  • Pis’mak, Yury M.
  • Zhang, Yi-Cheng

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Financial markets, with their vast range of different investment opportunities, can be seen as a system of many different simultaneous games with diverse and often unknown levels of risk and reward. We introduce generalizations to the classic Kelly investment game [J.L. Kelly, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2 (1956) 185–189] that incorporates these features, and use them to investigate the influence of diversification and limited information on Kelly-optimal portfolios. In particular, we present approximate formulas for optimizing diversified portfolios and exact results for optimal investment in unknown games where the only available information is past outcomes.

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  • Medo, Matúš & Pis’mak, Yury M. & Zhang, Yi-Cheng, 2008. "Diversification and limited information in the Kelly game," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 387(24), pages 6151-6158.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:387:y:2008:i:24:p:6151-6158
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.07.007
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    1. Jan Lorenz & Fabian Paetzel & Frank Schweitzer, 2013. "Redistribution Spurs Growth by Using a Portfolio Effect on Risky Human Capital," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(2), pages 1-13, February.
    2. Matus Medo & Chi Ho Yeung & Yi-Cheng Zhang, 2008. "How to quantify the influence of correlations on investment diversification," Papers 0805.3397, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2009.
    3. Rose D. Baker & Ian G. McHale, 2013. "Optimal Betting Under Parameter Uncertainty: Improving the Kelly Criterion," Decision Analysis, INFORMS, vol. 10(3), pages 189-199, September.
    4. Luo Yong & Zhu Bo & Tang Yong, 2015. "Dynamic optimal capital growth of diversified investment," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(3), pages 577-588, March.
    5. Medo, Matús & Yeung, Chi Ho & Zhang, Yi-Cheng, 2009. "How to quantify the influence of correlations on investment diversification," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 18(1-2), pages 34-39, March.
    6. Joseph B. Kadane, 2011. "Partial-Kelly Strategies and Expected Utility: Small-Edge Asymptotics," Decision Analysis, INFORMS, vol. 8(1), pages 4-9, March.

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