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

Polen Arabacı and Burak Kocuk
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Polen Arabacı: Sabancı University
Burak Kocuk: Sabancı University

A chapter in AI and Analytics for Public Health, 2022, pp 419-430 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Finance; Portfolio optimization; Robust optimization; Conic programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75166-1_31

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