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Long-only equal risk contribution portfolios for CVaR under discrete distributions

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  • Helmut Mausser
  • Oleksandr Romanko

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Portfolios in which all assets contribute equally to the conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) represent an interesting variation of the popular risk parity investment strategy. This paper considers the use of convex optimization to find long-only equal risk contribution (ERC) portfolios for CVaR given a set of equally likely scenarios of asset returns. We provide second-order conic and non-linear formulations of the problem, which yields an ERC portfolio when CVaR is both positive and differentiable at the optimal solution. We identify sufficient conditions for differentiability and develop a heuristic that obtains an approximate ERC portfolio when the conditions are not satisfied. Computational tests show that the approach performs well compared to non-convex formulations that have been proposed in the literature.

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  • Helmut Mausser & Oleksandr Romanko, 2018. "Long-only equal risk contribution portfolios for CVaR under discrete distributions," Quantitative Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(11), pages 1927-1945, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:quantf:v:18:y:2018:i:11:p:1927-1945
    DOI: 10.1080/14697688.2018.1434317
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