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Robust Portfolio Optimization Models When Stock Returns Are a Mixture of Normals

In: AI and Analytics for Public Health

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  • Polen Arabacı

    (Sabancı University)

  • Burak Kocuk

    (Sabancı University)

Abstract

Using optimization techniques in portfolio selection has attracted significant attention in financial decisions. However, one of the main challenging aspects faced in optimal portfolio selection is that the models are sensitive to the estimations of the uncertain parameters. In this paper, we focus on the robust optimization problems to incorporate uncertain parameters into the standard portfolio problems. We provide reformulations of the robust versions of portfolio optimization problems under different uncertainty sets as conic programs with two risk measures: variance and Conditional Value-at-Risk under the assumption that the stock returns are a mixture of normals. Finally, we conduct a computational study on a real data set to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of the robust optimization approaches. Our results suggest that employing robust models with budgeted uncertainty may provide higher returns for the same levels of risk, especially for investors inclined to take more risk, and the uncertainty in the covariance estimations does not have a significant impact.

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  • Polen Arabacı & Burak Kocuk, 2022. "Robust Portfolio Optimization Models When Stock Returns Are a Mixture of Normals," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Hui Yang & Robin Qiu & Weiwei Chen (ed.), AI and Analytics for Public Health, pages 419-430, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-030-75166-1_31
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75166-1_31
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