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48 results for passive management

Study shows big winner stocks significantly impact passive and active investment strategies.

problem Impact of big winner stocks on passive and active investment strategies.
method Numerical and analytical techniques applied to historical stock price data.
result Concentrated portfolios underperform equally weighted indexes due to missing big winner stocks.

This study proposes an equal-weight portfolio strategy to reduce risk compared to traditional ETFs.

problem Risk of passive ETFs not matching optimal portfolio weights.
method Introduced an equal-weight portfolio strategy to reduce idiosyncratic risk.
result Equal-weight portfolio has lower risk than traditional ETFs, especially during idiosyncratic events.

We develop a simple stock selection model to explain why active equity managers tend to underperform a benchmark index. We motivate our model with the empirical observation that the best performing stocks in a broad market index often perform much better than the other stocks in the index. Randomly selecting a subset o…

2015-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This review analyzes recent advances in solving index tracking problems.

problem Creating a portfolio that closely follows a specific index with lower costs.
method Systematic review of mathematical approaches and metaheuristics.
result Metaheuristics have been extensively applied and improved in solving index tracking problems.

Given a new candidate asset represented as a time series of returns, how should a quantitative investment manager be thinking about assessing its usefulness? This is a key qualitative question inherent to the investment process which we aim to make precise. We argue that the usefulness of an asset can only be determine…

2018-06-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Model A outperforms passive investment in stock index prediction with less exposure.

problem Predicting short-term stock index movements with high accuracy.
method Dynamic Deep Neural Networks (DNN) for trading decisions.
result Model A outperforms passive investment and conventional ML methods.

The paper analyzes performance criteria for competing fund managers in Ito-diffusion markets.

problem Analyzing performance of competing fund managers in Ito-diffusion markets.
method Developed forward relative performance criteria and forward Nash equilibrium for passive and competitive cases.
result Extended performance criteria for investment problems in Ito-diffusion markets.

We address a portfolio selection problem that combines active (outperformance) and passive (tracking) objectives using techniques from convex analysis. We assume a general semimartingale market model where the assets' growth rate processes are driven by a latent factor. Using techniques from convex analysis we obtain a…

2019-03-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces a new multi-kernel algorithm for better gradient approximation.

problem Improving gradient approximation in high-dimensional problems.
method Develops a multi-kernel passive stochastic gradient algorithm with variance reduction.
result The multi-kernel algorithm performs better in high-dimensional problems.

Active learning can't improve over passive in certain settings.

problem Active learning vs. passive learning in nonparametric settings.
method Analyzing margin conditions and their effects on active learning performance.
result Nuances in margin conditions determine whether active learning can outperform passive learning.

Paper proposes a novel trading strategy combining clustering and reinforcement learning for multi-period portfolio management.

problem Developing an effective trading strategy for multi-period portfolio management.
method The paper integrates clustering techniques with reinforcement learning to categorize and manage stocks across multiple trading periods.
result The proposed strategy outperforms conventional techniques in various metrics, achieving an average return of 151% over 360 trading periods.

This paper aims to incorporate passive symmetries in machine learning for better generalization.

problem Machine learning's reliance on arbitrary choices leads to passive symmetries that can limit generalization.
method Translation among physics, mathematics, and machine learning to understand and implement passive symmetries.
result Respecting passive symmetries can improve machine learning's ability to generalize.

This paper investigates the market impact of passive orders.

problem Understanding the market impact of passive orders executed through limit orders.
method Developed a microstructure model linking liquidity dynamics and price moves, replacing the constant information content assumption with a function dependent on available volume.
result Derived useful approximations for market impact curves, leading to closed-form formulas.

DeePM is a deep-learning portfolio manager that outperforms classical strategies in diversified futures markets.

problem Maximizing risk-adjusted returns in financial markets with low signal-to-noise ratios and asynchronous data.
method Structured deep learning with a Directed Delay mechanism, Macroeconomic Graph Prior, and distributionally robust optimization.
result DeePM achieves net risk-adjusted returns roughly twice those of classical strategies and passive benchmarks.

Study uses ML to analyze how interest rates affect fund returns, finding gradient boosting is effective.

problem Understanding how interest rate changes impact fund returns.
method Combines Machine Learning and causal inference, using Double Machine Learning framework.
result Gradient boosting is useful for predicting fund returns, showing a significant negative effect of interest rate increases.

We study the role of active and passive investors in an investment market with uncertainties. Active investors concentrate on a single or a few stocks with a given probability of determining the quality of them. Passive investors spread their investment uniformly, resembling buying the market index. In this toy market …

2001-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

DeepPocket uses graph convolutional reinforcement learning for better financial portfolio management.

problem Maximizing return on investment while managing risk in correlated financial assets.
method Graph convolutional reinforcement learning framework with feature extraction, local information collection, and actor-critic reinforcement learning.
result DeepPocket outperformed market indexes on five real-life datasets over three investment periods, including during the Covid-19 crisis.

This paper reviews and analyzes various modeling approaches for financial index tracking.

problem Efficient replication of market index performance in financial markets.
method Categorization into three frameworks: optimization, statistical, and machine learning; empirical study on S&P 500 dataset.
result Optimization-based models deliver the most precise index tracking, statistical-based models achieve the strongest return-risk balance, and data-driven models provide competitive performance.

A multi-agent system improves crypto portfolio management by processing diverse data types.

problem Managing cryptocurrency portfolios requires processing various data types under high volatility.
method A multi-agent system with three specialized agents for market dynamics, news sentiment, and signal fusion.
result The best configuration, Hierarchical (Skill), achieved a 133.52% cumulative return and 1.502 Sharpe ratio.

This paper optimizes decarbonized indices for financial tracking, balancing risk and environmental impact.

problem Balancing financial performance with environmental responsibilities in the context of climate risks.
method Develops decarbonized indices using mean-VaR and mean-ES optimization methods.
result Optimized indices reduce financial risk and carbon footprint, providing a balanced investment option.

JIT liquidity providers can sometimes reduce overall market liquidity by crowding out passive LPs.

problem JIT liquidity providers can reduce overall market liquidity by crowding out passive LPs.
method Game-theoretic model with asymmetrically informed agents to analyze JIT liquidity provision in blockchain-based decentralized exchanges.
result JIT LPs only provide liquidity to uninformed orders and crowd out passive LPs when order volume is not sufficiently elastic to pool depth, potentially reducing overall market liquidity.

Finsler space is differentiable manifold for which Minkowski space is the fiber of the tangent bundle. To understand structure of the reference frame in Finsler space, we need to understand the structure of orthonormal basis in Minkowski space. In this paper, we considered the definition of orthonormal basis in Minkows…

2012-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we study a symmetry group of vector space. Basis manifold is a homogeneous space of a symmetry group. This concept leads us to the definition of active and passive transformations on basis manifold. Active transformation can be expressed as a transformation of vector space. Passive transformation gives ab…

2004-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Mean representations of VAEs are correlated but still useful for tasks.

problem Correlation between mean and sampled representations of VAEs.
method Selective posterior collapse to identify active and passive variables.
result Passive variables in mean representations are correlated but uncorrelated in sampled ones.

In Passive POMDPs actions do not affect the world state, but still incur costs. When the agent is bounded by information-processing constraints, it can only keep an approximation of the belief. We present a variational principle for the problem of maintaining the information which is most useful for minimizing the cost…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Stabilizes online learning by using weighted reservoir sampling.

problem Real-world deployment sensitivity to outliers causes low accuracy in final solutions.
method Weighted reservoir sampling to stabilize ensemble model without additional data passes.
result Risk of ensemble classifier is bounded with respect to the underlying online learning method's regret.

Actively sampled data can have very different characteristics than passively sampled data. Therefore, it's promising to investigate using different inference procedures during AL than are used during passive learning (PL). This general idea is explored in detail for the focused case of AL with cost-weighted SVMs for im…

2014-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Algometrics analyzes how predictive models affect their own forecasts in algorithmic markets.

problem How predictive models affect their own forecasts in algorithmic markets.
method Introduces algometrics, a framework for time series with feedback, proving three results on deployment risk.
result Deployment risk cannot be identified from passive historical data alone, and historical rankings can invert under crowding.

FeDXL tackles federated learning for X-risk optimization.

problem Optimizing a family of X-risks with federated learning, where existing algorithms are not applicable.
method Active-passive decomposition framework, federated averaging and merging, novel theoretical analysis.
result FeDXL algorithms for linear and nonlinear ff are developed, with established complexities and improved performance.

The overarching goal of this paper is to derive excess risk bounds for learning from exp-concave loss functions in passive and sequential learning settings. Exp-concave loss functions encompass several fundamental problems in machine learning such as squared loss in linear regression, logistic loss in classification, a…

2014-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

There is a large body of work on convergence rates either in passive or active learning. Here we outline some of the results that have been obtained, more specifically in a nonparametric setting under assumptions about the smoothness and the margin noise. We also discuss the relative merits of these underlying assumpti…

2019-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Study learns linear utility functions from comparisons, showing learnability gaps between passive and active learning.

problem Learn linear utility functions from pairwise comparison queries.
method Analyzes passive and active learning settings, considering noise-free and noisy query responses.
result Efficient learnability of linear utilities in passive learning, but not for utility parameters without strong assumptions.

A new model tracks indices without rebalancing, solving NP-hard problems.

problem Tracking indices without rebalancing and minimizing deviations.
method Metaheuristic algorithms and local branching for solving mixed integer linear programming.
result The heuristic generates portfolios that outperform commercial solvers in both in-sample and out-of-sample data.