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Mastering R for Quantitative Finance

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783552078
Pages 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Mastering R for Quantitative Finance
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Time Series Analysis 2. Factor Models 3. Forecasting Volume 4. Big Data – Advanced Analytics 5. FX Derivatives 6. Interest Rate Derivatives and Models 7. Exotic Options 8. Optimal Hedging 9. Fundamental Analysis 10. Technical Analysis, Neural Networks, and Logoptimal Portfolios 11. Asset and Liability Management 12. Capital Adequacy 13. Systemic Risks Index

Logoptimal portfolios


Contrary to the previous points, let us suppose that there are a finite number of risky assets available on the market. These assets are traded continuously without any transaction costs. The investor analyses historical market data and based on this, can reset her portfolio at the end of each day. How can she maximize her wealth in the long run? If returns are independent in time, then markets are efficient in the weak sense and the time series of returns have no memory. If returns are also identically distributed (i.i.d), the optimal strategy is to set portfolio weights for example, according to the Markowitz model (see Daróczi et al. 2013) and to keep portfolio weights fixed over the whole time horizon. In this setting, any rearrangements would have negative effects on the portfolio value in the long run.

Now, let us suspend the assumption of longitudinal independency, hence let us allow for hidden patterns in the asset returns, therefore markets are not efficient...

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