Portfolio construction and risk budgeting 4th edition

Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting is highly recommended for practitioners including portfolio managers, consultants, strategists, marketers and quantitative analysts. It would also give an edge to final year undergraduates and MBAs looking to expand their knowledge beyond the mean-variance based solutions commonly taught in business schools.

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Bernd Scherer. Publisher: Risk Books , This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. So an asset with an inferior Sharpe ratio can have a higher weight. The reason why is that in a long-only portfolio assets are either in or out but never have a negative weight.

The long-only rule creates an "optionality" for the more volatile security when averaging over long-only portfolios. The re-sampled efficient frontier can have upward bending components. This is also a serious theoretical problem.

The re-sampling changes the structure of the maximum Sharpe ratio portfolio because of re-sampling tendency to weight more volatile assets. One way to see this is that in modern portfolio theory, the tangency portfolio will never contain cash. However, the re-sampled portfolio will always contain cash as it sampled in some trials. Biggest critique is that the there is no statistical foundation -- all re-sampling are derived from the same vector and covariance matrix.

And since the true distribution is unknown all re-sampled protfolios suffer from the deviation in estimated return vector and covariance matrix in the same way. Averaging will not remove this bias and so all portfolio will inherit this estimation noise. There is a great deal of misinformation and out-of-date information on this site. Many of the references in this discussion and elsewhere have serious research flaws.

The alternatives discussed here are not patented nor in many cases refereed. To answer the original question, Monte Carlo simulation tests are the standard method in modern statistics used to determine the superiority of one statistical procedure over another.

Such a study was used to prove that Michaud optimization is superior to MVO. These are mathematical proofs. There is no doubt of the result. The simulation tests for Michaud vs. It is important to note that simulation tests are far superior to back tests. A back test proves absolutely nothing. It only tells you what happened during some time period. A different time period may have very different results. The Markowitz-Usmen tests took for granted that the resampling process we introduced note: this is not the Morningstar Encorr procedure , is superior to MVO.

What Markowitz and Usmen wanted to prove is whether better information beats a better optimizer? They tested MVO and better information against Michaud with much less information.