Mean-variance versus full-scale optimization: Broad evidence for the UK
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Summary, in English
Portfolio choice by full-scale optimization applies the empirical return distribution to a parameterized utility function, and the maximum is found through numerical optimization. Using a portfolio choice setting of three UK equity indices we identify several utility functions featuring loss aversion and prospect theory, under which full-scale optimization is a substantially better approach than the mean-variance approach. As the equity indices have return distributions with small deviations from normality, the findings indicate much broader usefulness of full-scale optimization than has earlier been shown. The results hold in- and out-of-sample, and the performance improvements are given in terms of utility as well as certainty equivalents.
Department/s
Publishing year
2008
Language
English
Pages
134-156
Publication/Series
Manchester School
Volume
76
Issue
s1
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Topic
- Economics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1463-6786