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Tangent portfolio weights without explicitly specified expected returns

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  • Paskalis Glabadanidis

    (Business School, Accounting and Finance, University of Adelaide)

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In this article, I propose an extension of the Treynor–Black model to a case where the investor is not fully invested in the stock market at the outset and there is no need to explicitly specify securities’ expected returns. I derive explicit tangent portfolio weights based on a factor model of securities’ expected returns. The computational burden of the model is linear in the number of securities in the portfolio and does not involve any matrix inversion. I present an empirical application using the market model of Sharpe, the three-factor model of Fama and French and the four-factor model of Carhart with up to 30 industry portfolios between 1963 and 2012 and up to 1000 US stocks starting in 1992 until 2012. The portfolios perform well out-of-sample relative to the entire US value-weighted stock market portfolio with dividends reinvested from the Center for Research in Security Prices. The proposed framework can be extended in a straightforward way to time-varying factor models with multiple state variables affecting securities’ expected returns and factor loadings.

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  • Paskalis Glabadanidis, 2014. "Tangent portfolio weights without explicitly specified expected returns," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 15(3), pages 177-190, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:assmgt:v:15:y:2014:i:3:d:10.1057_jam.2014.22
    DOI: 10.1057/jam.2014.22
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    3. Paskalis Glabadanidis, 2016. "Maximizing excess return per unit variance: A novel investment management objective," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 17(7), pages 486-501, December.

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