{"title":"Dynamic Asset Allocation with Asset-Specific Regime Forecasts","authors":"Yizhan Shu, Chenyu Yu, John M. Mulvey","doi":"arxiv-2406.09578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2406.09578","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces a novel hybrid regime identification-forecasting\u0000framework designed to enhance multi-asset portfolio construction by integrating\u0000asset-specific regime forecasts. Unlike traditional approaches that focus on\u0000broad economic regimes affecting the entire asset universe, our framework\u0000leverages both unsunpervised and supervised learning to generate tailored\u0000regime forecasts for individual assets. Initially, we use the statistical jump\u0000model, a robust unsupervised regime identification model, to derive regime\u0000labels for historical periods, classifying them into bullish or bearish states\u0000based on features extracted from an asset return series. Following this, a\u0000supervised gradient-boosted decision tree classifier is trained to predict\u0000these regimes using a combination of asset-specific return features and\u0000cross-asset macro-features. We apply this framework individually to each asset\u0000in our universe. Subsequently, return and risk forecasts which incorporate\u0000these regime predictions are input into Markowitz mean-variance optimization to\u0000determine optimal asset allocation weights. We demonstrate the efficacy of our\u0000approach through an empirical study on a multi-asset portfolio comprising\u0000twelve risky assets, including global equity, bond, real estate, and commodity\u0000indexes spanning from 1991 to 2023. The results consistently show\u0000outperformance across various portfolio models, including minimum-variance,\u0000mean-variance, and naive-diversified portfolios, highlighting the advantages of\u0000integrating asset-specific regime forecasts into dynamic asset allocation.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141502270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gas Fees on the Ethereum Blockchain: From Foundations to Derivatives Valuations","authors":"Bernhard K Meister, Henry CW Price","doi":"arxiv-2406.06524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2406.06524","url":null,"abstract":"The gas fee, paid for inclusion in the blockchain, is analyzed in two parts.\u0000First, we consider how effort in terms of resources required to process and\u0000store a transaction turns into a gas limit, which, through a fee, comprised of\u0000the base and priority fee in the current version of Ethereum, is converted into\u0000the cost paid by the user. We hew closely to the Ethereum protocol to simplify\u0000the analysis and to constrain the design choices when considering\u0000multidimensional gas. Second, we assume that the gas price is given deus ex\u0000machina by a fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and evaluate various\u0000derivatives. These contracts can, for example, mitigate gas cost volatility.\u0000The ability to price and trade forwards besides the existing spot inclusion\u0000into the blockchain could be beneficial.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141502271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mean-variance portfolio selection in jump-diffusion model under no-shorting constraint: A viscosity solution approach","authors":"Xiaomin Shi, Zuo Quan Xu","doi":"arxiv-2406.03709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2406.03709","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concerns a continuous time mean-variance (MV) portfolio selection\u0000problem in a jump-diffusion financial model with no-shorting trading\u0000constraint. The problem is reduced to two subproblems: solving a stochastic\u0000linear-quadratic (LQ) control problem under control constraint, and finding a\u0000maximal point of a real function. Based on a two-dimensional fully coupled\u0000ordinary differential equation (ODE), we construct an explicit viscosity\u0000solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation of the constrained LQ problem.\u0000Together with the Meyer-It^o formula and a verification procedure, we obtain\u0000the optimal feedback controls of the constrained LQ problem and the original MV\u0000problem, which corrects the flawed results in some existing literatures. In\u0000addition, closed-form efficient portfolio and efficient frontier are derived.\u0000In the end, we present several examples where the two-dimensional ODE is\u0000decoupled.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ensembling Portfolio Strategies for Long-Term Investments: A Distribution-Free Preference Framework for Decision-Making and Algorithms","authors":"Duy Khanh Lam","doi":"arxiv-2406.03652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2406.03652","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the problem of ensembling multiple strategies for\u0000sequential portfolios to outperform individual strategies in terms of long-term\u0000wealth. Due to the uncertainty of strategies' performances in the future\u0000market, which are often based on specific models and statistical assumptions,\u0000investors often mitigate risk and enhance robustness by combining multiple\u0000strategies, akin to common approaches in collective learning prediction.\u0000However, the absence of a distribution-free and consistent preference framework\u0000complicates decisions of combination due to the ambiguous objective. To address\u0000this gap, we introduce a novel framework for decision-making in combining\u0000strategies, irrespective of market conditions, by establishing the investor's\u0000preference between decisions and then forming a clear objective. Through this\u0000framework, we propose a combinatorial strategy construction, free from\u0000statistical assumptions, for any scale of component strategies, even infinite,\u0000such that it meets the determined criterion. Finally, we test the proposed\u0000strategy along with its accelerated variant and some other multi-strategies.\u0000The numerical experiments show results in favor of the proposed strategies,\u0000albeit with small tradeoffs in their Sharpe ratios, in which their cumulative\u0000wealths eventually exceed those of the best component strategies while the\u0000accelerated strategy significantly improves performance.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141552679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pablo Alvarez-Campana, Felix Villafanez, Fernando Acebes, David Poza
{"title":"Simulation-based approach for Multiproject Scheduling based on composite priority rules","authors":"Pablo Alvarez-Campana, Felix Villafanez, Fernando Acebes, David Poza","doi":"arxiv-2406.02102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2406.02102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a simulation approach to enhance the performance of\u0000heuristics for multi-project scheduling. Unlike other heuristics available in\u0000the literature that use only one priority criterion for resource allocation,\u0000this paper proposes a structured way to sequentially apply more than one\u0000priority criterion for this purpose. By means of simulation, different feasible\u0000schedules are obtained to, therefore, increase the probability of finding the\u0000schedule with the shortest duration. The performance of this simulation\u0000approach was validated with the MPSPLib library, one of the most prominent\u0000libraries for resource-constrained multi-project scheduling. These results\u0000highlight the proposed method as a useful option for addressing limited time\u0000and resources in portfolio management.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141257638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandre V. Antonov, Koushik Balasubramanian, Alexander Lipton, Marcos Lopez de Prado
{"title":"A Geometric Approach To Asset Allocation With Investor Views","authors":"Alexandre V. Antonov, Koushik Balasubramanian, Alexander Lipton, Marcos Lopez de Prado","doi":"arxiv-2406.01199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2406.01199","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a geometric approach to incorporating investor views in\u0000portfolio construction is presented. In particular, the proposed approach\u0000utilizes the notion of generalized Wasserstein barycenter (GWB) to combine the\u0000statistical information about asset returns with investor views to obtain an\u0000updated estimate of the asset drifts and covariance, which are then fed into a\u0000mean-variance optimizer as inputs. Quantitative comparisons of the proposed\u0000geometric approach with the conventional Black-Litterman model (and a closely\u0000related variant) are presented. The proposed geometric approach provides\u0000investors with more flexibility in specifying their confidence in their views\u0000than conventional Black-Litterman model-based approaches. The geometric\u0000approach also rewards the investors more for making correct decisions than\u0000conventional BL based approaches. We provide empirical and theoretical\u0000justifications for our claim.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"2013 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141257717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tick-by-Tick Solution for Concentrated Liquidity Provisioning","authors":"Corinne Powers","doi":"arxiv-2405.18728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2405.18728","url":null,"abstract":"Automated market makers with concentrated liquidity capabilities are\u0000programmable at the tick level. The maximization of earned fees, plus\u0000depreciated reserves, is a convex optimization problem whose vector solution\u0000gives the best provision of liquidity at each tick under a given set of\u0000parameter estimates for swap volume and price volatility. Surprisingly, early\u0000results show that concentrating liquidity around the current price is usually\u0000not the best strategy.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141189113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Sectoral Profitability in the Indian Stock Market Using Deep Learning","authors":"Jaydip Sen, Hetvi Waghela, Sneha Rakshit","doi":"arxiv-2407.01572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2407.01572","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores using a deep learning Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model\u0000for accurate stock price prediction and its implications for portfolio design.\u0000Despite the efficient market hypothesis suggesting that predicting stock prices\u0000is impossible, recent research has shown the potential of advanced algorithms\u0000and predictive models. The study builds upon existing literature on stock price\u0000prediction methods, emphasizing the shift toward machine learning and deep\u0000learning approaches. Using historical stock prices of 180 stocks across 18\u0000sectors listed on the NSE, India, the LSTM model predicts future prices. These\u0000predictions guide buy/sell decisions for each stock and analyze sector\u0000profitability. The study's main contributions are threefold: introducing an\u0000optimized LSTM model for robust portfolio design, utilizing LSTM predictions\u0000for buy/sell transactions, and insights into sector profitability and\u0000volatility. Results demonstrate the efficacy of the LSTM model in accurately\u0000predicting stock prices and informing investment decisions. By comparing sector\u0000profitability and prediction accuracy, the work provides valuable insights into\u0000the dynamics of the current financial markets in India.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141523135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sabrina Khurshid, Mohammed Shahid Abdulla, Gourab Ghatak
{"title":"Optimizing Sharpe Ratio: Risk-Adjusted Decision-Making in Multi-Armed Bandits","authors":"Sabrina Khurshid, Mohammed Shahid Abdulla, Gourab Ghatak","doi":"arxiv-2406.06552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2406.06552","url":null,"abstract":"Sharpe Ratio (SR) is a critical parameter in characterizing financial time\u0000series as it jointly considers the reward and the volatility of any\u0000stock/portfolio through its variance. Deriving online algorithms for optimizing\u0000the SR is particularly challenging since even offline policies experience\u0000constant regret with respect to the best expert Even-Dar et al (2006). Thus,\u0000instead of optimizing the usual definition of SR, we optimize regularized\u0000square SR (RSSR). We consider two settings for the RSSR, Regret Minimization\u0000(RM) and Best Arm Identification (BAI). In this regard, we propose a novel\u0000multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithm for RM called UCB-RSSR for RSSR\u0000maximization. We derive a path-dependent concentration bound for the estimate\u0000of the RSSR. Based on that, we derive the regret guarantees of UCB-RSSR and\u0000show that it evolves as O(log n) for the two-armed bandit case played for a\u0000horizon n. We also consider a fixed budget setting for well-known BAI\u0000algorithms, i.e., sequential halving and successive rejects, and propose SHVV,\u0000SHSR, and SuRSR algorithms. We derive the upper bound for the error probability\u0000of all proposed BAI algorithms. We demonstrate that UCB-RSSR outperforms the\u0000only other known SR optimizing bandit algorithm, U-UCB Cassel et al (2023). We\u0000also establish its efficacy with respect to other benchmarks derived from the\u0000GRA-UCB and MVTS algorithms. We further demonstrate the performance of proposed\u0000BAI algorithms for multiple different setups. Our research highlights that our\u0000proposed algorithms will find extensive applications in risk-aware portfolio\u0000management problems. Consequently, our research highlights that our proposed\u0000algorithms will find extensive applications in risk-aware portfolio management\u0000problems.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"204 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141523138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constrained monotone mean--variance investment-reinsurance under the Cramér--Lundberg model with random coefficients","authors":"Xiaomin Shi, Zuo Quan Xu","doi":"arxiv-2405.17841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2405.17841","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies an optimal investment-reinsurance problem for an insurer\u0000(she) under the Cram'er--Lundberg model with monotone mean--variance (MMV)\u0000criterion. At any time, the insurer can purchase reinsurance (or acquire new\u0000business) and invest in a security market consisting of a risk-free asset and\u0000multiple risky assets whose excess return rate and volatility rate are allowed\u0000to be random. The trading strategy is subject to a general convex cone\u0000constraint, encompassing no-shorting constraint as a special case. The optimal\u0000investment-reinsurance strategy and optimal value for the MMV problem are\u0000deduced by solving certain backward stochastic differential equations with\u0000jumps. In the literature, it is known that models with MMV criterion and\u0000mean--variance criterion lead to the same optimal strategy and optimal value\u0000when the wealth process is continuous. Our result shows that the conclusion\u0000remains true even if the wealth process has compensated Poisson jumps and the\u0000market coefficients are random.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141168554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}