Comparing cost-mitigation techniques

R Novy-Marx, M Velikov - Financial Analysts Journal, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article compares the efficacy of three common transaction-cost-mitigation techniques:
limiting a strategy to cheap-to-trade securities, rebalancing a strategy less frequently, and …

Computing optimal rebalance frequency for log-optimal portfolios

SR Das, D Kaznachey, M Goyal - Quantitative Finance, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Log-optimal investment portfolio is deemed to be impractical and cost-prohibitive due to
inherent need for continuous rebalancing and significant overhead of trading cost. We study …

[BOOK][B] Positive Alpha Generation: Designing Sound Investment Processes

C Diderich - 2009 - books.google.com
Diderich describes tools and techniques, which can be used to develop quantitative models
for actively managing investment products, and focuses on how theoretical models can and …

Computing optimal rebalance frequency for log-optimal portfolios in linear time

SR Das, M Goyal - Quantitative Finance, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The pure form of log-optimal investment strategies are often considered to be impractical
due to the inherent need for continuous rebalancing. It is however possible to improve …

Rebalancing a two-asset Markowitz portfolio: A fundamental analysis

S Das, M Goyal - … for Financial Engineering & Economics (CIFEr …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We determine an opportune time to rebalance a two-asset portfolio set up using the single
period Markowitz framework. This is achieved by studying and comparing the nature of …

Covariance averaging for improved estimation and portfolio allocation

F Papailias, DD Thomakos - Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2015 - Springer
We propose a new method for estimating the covariance matrix of a multivariate time series
of financial returns. The method is based on estimating sample covariances from …

Dancing in the Dark: Optimal Liquidity Search under Portfolio Constraints

BH Polidore, W Xu, J Alexandre, Z Wei - The Journal of Trading, 2015 - pm-research.com
One of the core responsibilities of many institutional traders is managing cash and risk
constraints of a portfolio. Traders often do not take advantage of dark trading and block …

Discrete-time log-optimal portfolio rebalancing: A scalable efficient algorithm

S Das, M Goyal - … for Financial Engineering & Economics (CIFEr …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Portfolio rebalancing decisions are crucial to today's portfolio managers especially in high
frequency trading environment. These decisions must be made fast in dynamic market …

[CITATION][C] Dancing in the Dark

B Polidore, W Xu - 2015