Time-consistent risk-constrained dynamic portfolio optimization with transactional costs and time-dependent returns

Davi Valladão (), Thuener Silva and Marcus Poggi
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Davi Valladão: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Thuener Silva: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Marcus Poggi: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Annals of Operations Research, 2019, vol. 282, issue 1, No 17, 379-405

Abstract: Abstract Dynamic portfolio optimization has a vast literature exploring different simplifications by virtue of computational tractability of the problem. Previous works provide solution methods considering unrealistic assumptions, such as no transactional costs, small number of assets, specific choices of utility functions and oversimplified price dynamics. Other more realistic strategies use heuristic solution approaches to obtain suitable investment policies. In this work, we propose a time-consistent risk-constrained dynamic portfolio optimization model with transactional costs and Markovian time-dependence. The proposed model is efficiently solved using a Markov chained stochastic dual dynamic programming algorithm. We impose one-period conditional value-at-risk constraints, arguing that it is reasonable to assume that an investor knows how much he is willing to lose in a given period. In contrast to dynamic risk measures as the objective function, our time-consistent model has relatively complete recourse and a straightforward lower bound, considering a maximization problem. We use the proposed model for approximately solving: (i) an illustrative problem with 3 assets and 1 factor with an autoregressive dynamic; (ii) a high-dimensional problem with 100 assets and 5 factors following a discrete Markov chain. In both cases, we empirically show that our approximate solution is near-optimal for the original problem and significantly outperforms selected (heuristic) benchmarks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic approach for solving realistic time-consistent risk-constrained dynamic asset allocation problems.

Keywords: Stochastic programming; Time consistency; Dynamic asset allocation; Stochastic dual dynamic programming; Conditional value-at-risk constraints (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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