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48 results for reward-risk ratios

Diversified risk parity strategies outperform equally-weighted portfolios in various asset universes.

problem Finding optimal portfolio allocations that balance risk and reward.
method Integrates various reward-risk measures and generic allocation rules into diversified risk parity.
result Diversified reward-risk parity strategies exhibit higher average returns, Sharpe ratios, and Calmar ratios compared to equally-weighted risk portfolios.

A new framework assesses financial and ESG risks for sustainable investing.

problem Measuring risk and reward in sustainable investing considering environmental, social, and governance factors.
method Proposes axiomatic definitions for ESG-coherent risk measures and reward-risk ratios based on bivariate random variables.
result Empirical analysis ranks stocks using the proposed measures.

Dynamic portfolio strategy using generative model with attention mechanism.

problem Dynamic modeling of multivariate stock returns with tail-side properties.
method Dynamic generative factor model using Attention-GRU network for dynamic learning and forecasting.
result The proposed model leads to wiser investments with higher reward-risk ratios and lower tail risks.

Robust MCVaR portfolio optimization using RKHS for risk management.

problem Minimizing portfolio risk while achieving higher returns under uncertainty.
method Introduces a robust MCVaR model with ellipsoidal support and RKHS uncertainty set for chance constraint.
result Robust model outperforms nominal and market portfolios in various market conditions.

Unified framework for ESG-inclusive portfolio optimization and pricing.

problem Incorporating ESG ratings into dynamic asset pricing theory.
method Introducing ESG-valued return as a linear transformation of financial and ESG scores, preserving traditional risk aversion with an ESG affinity parameter.
result Developed a more complex portfolio optimization problem in a space governed by reward, risk, and ESG score.

Machine learning improves portfolio allocation between index and risk-free assets.

problem Finding optimal portfolio rules for time-varying returns and volatility.
method Two Random Forest models: one for sign probabilities of excess return, the other for optimized volatility.
result Substantial improvements in utility, risk-adjusted returns, and maximum drawdowns over buy-and-hold.

We empirically test predictability on asset price by using stock selection rules based on maximum drawdown and its consecutive recovery. In various equity markets, monthly momentum- and weekly contrarian-style portfolios constructed from these alternative selection criteria are superior not only in forecasting directio…

2014-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Capital allocation principles are used in various contexts in which a risk capital or a cost of an aggregate position has to be allocated among its constituent parts. We study capital allocation principles in a performance measurement framework. We introduce the notation of suitability of allocations for performance me…

2013-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new portfolio model for better investment decisions.

problem Traditional portfolio models fail to adapt to nonstationary markets.
method Developed a mean-detrended cross-correlation portfolio model (M-DCCP model).
result The M-DCCP model outperforms traditional models in constructing optimal portfolios.

New method for optimizing risk in financial models using Fourier transforms.

problem Optimizing risk in financial models with multi-period mean-CVaR.
method Strictly monotone 2D integration scheme via Fourier-trained transition kernels.
result Established robust and accurate optimization method for financial models.

Omega ratio is shown to be equivalent to Sharpe ratio under certain distributional assumptions.

problem Comparing Omega ratio to Sharpe ratio as performance indicators.
method Computation and analysis of Omega ratio for normal distribution and proof for elliptic distributions.
result Omega ratio is equivalent to Sharpe ratio for returns with elliptic distributions.

This paper optimizes portfolios using TDA and financial news sentiment.

problem Effective portfolio diversification through understanding asset similarity.
method Integrates TDA with FinBERT sentiment scores for dynamic rebalancing.
result Outperforms traditional methods in returns and risk-adjusted performance.

We discuss - in what is intended to be a pedagogical fashion - generalized "mean-to-risk" ratios for portfolio optimization. The Sharpe ratio is only one example of such generalized "mean-to-risk" ratios. Another example is what we term the Fano ratio (which, unlike the Sharpe ratio, is independent of the time horizon)…

2017-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimal option portfolios under Sharpe Ratio maximization with skew-elliptical t-distributed returns

problem Optimal option portfolios under Sharpe Ratio maximization
method Formulation for explicit portfolio weights
result Different optimal portfolios for Sharpe Ratio and return-to-Value-at-Risk (VaR) ratio

We present a new methodology of computing incremental contribution for performance ratios for portfolio like Sharpe, Treynor, Calmar or Sterling ratios. Using Euler's homogeneous function theorem, we are able to decompose these performance ratios as a linear combination of individual modified performance ratios. This a…

2018-07-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proposes an asset allocation strategy using the Sortino ratio for better performance.

problem Traditional asset allocation methods like the Sharpe ratio do not penalize negative returns adequately.
method The Sortino ratio is used to maximize asset allocation, penalizing only negative return variances.
result The Sortino ratio-based strategy outperforms traditional methods like the Kelly criterion.

Unified framework for OOD detection using class ratio estimation.

problem Density-based OOD detection is unreliable for OOD images.
method Unified framework that builds energy-based models and employs differing base distributions, directly estimating the density ratio through class ratio estimation.
result Competitive results on OOD image problems compared to recent work.

Paper shows how to embed Möbius bands with many twists and small aspect ratios.

problem Finding the smallest aspect ratio for Möbius bands with many twists.
method Constructs a folded paper ribbon knot to bound the aspect ratio.
result Paper Möbius bands and annuli with any number of half-twists can be embedded with aspect ratio less than 8.

Paper tackles unbounded density ratio estimation for covariate shift adaptation.

problem Understudied challenge in statistical learning: unbounded density ratios.
method Three-step estimation method: relative density ratio, truncation, and transformation.
result Established rigorous convergence guarantees for density ratio and regression estimators.

Study shows robust method for estimating density ratios even with heavy contamination.

problem Estimating density ratios in the presence of heavy contamination.
method Weighted density ratio estimation (DRE) with doubly strong robustness.
result Weighted DRE achieves sparse consistency under heavy contamination.

Meta-learning improves relative density-ratio estimation from limited data.

problem Estimating relative density-ratios from few instances.
method Meta-learning using neural networks to extract and embed dataset information for relative DRE.
result Meta-learning enables efficient and effective adaptation to few instances for relative DRE.

The paper describes a method to infer the signal-to-noise ratio in portfolio optimization.

problem Estimating the signal-to-noise ratio in portfolio optimization problems.
method A statistic similar to the Sharpe Ratio Information Criterion is used for inference.
result The method works well for reasonable sample and asset universe sizes.

Sharpe ratio (sometimes also referred to as information ratio) is widely used in asset management to compare and benchmark funds and asset managers. It computes the ratio of the (excess) net return over the strategy standard deviation. However, the elements to compute the Sharpe ratio, namely, the expected returns and …

2019-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops estimators for unbounded density ratios with applications in error control.

problem Estimating density ratios with unbounded domains and ranges.
method Least squares and logistic regression loss functions for density ratio estimation.
result Established upper bounds on estimation errors with optimal rates for unbounded density ratios.

The paper analyzes the Rashomon ratio for infinite classifier families and shows its importance for choosing good classifiers.

problem Analyzing the Rashomon ratio for infinite classifier families.
method Quantifying the Rashomon ratio in two examples and providing guarantees for estimating it.
result A large Rashomon ratio guarantees choosing a classifier with good empirical accuracy will not significantly increase empirical loss.

We generalize the natural cross ratio on the ideal boundary of a rank one symmetric spaces, or even CAT(1)\mathrm{CAT}(-1) space, to higher rank symmetric spaces and (non-locally compact) Euclidean buildings - we obtain vector valued cross ratios defined on simplices of the building at infinity. We show several properties …

2017-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we propose new objective functions to train deep neural network based density ratio estimators and apply it to a change point detection problem. Existing methods use linear combinations of kernels to approximate the density ratio function by solving a convex constrained minimization problem. Approximating…

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗