Distributionally Robust Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection with Wasserstein Distances

02/13/2018
by   Jose Blanchet, et al.
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We revisit Markowitz's mean-variance portfolio selection model by considering a distributionally robust version, where the region of distributional uncertainty is around the empirical measure and the discrepancy between probability measures is dictated by the so-called Wasserstein distance. We reduce this problem into an empirical variance minimization problem with an additional regularization term. Moreover, we extend recent inference methodology in order to select the size of the distributional uncertainty as well as the associated robust target return rate in a data-driven way.

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