Modern Portfolio Optimization with NuOPT™, S-PLUS®, and S+Bayes™ - Brossura

Scherer, Bernd; Martin, R. Douglas

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ISBN 10: 1441919341 ISBN 13: 9781441919342

Casa editrice: Springer, 2010

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In recent years, portfolio optimization and construction methodologies have become an increasingly critical ingredient of asset and fund management while at the same time portfolio risk assessment has become an essential ingredient in risk management, and this trend will only accelerate in the coming years. This book fills the gap between current university instruction and current industry practice by providing a comprehensive treatment of modern portfolio optimization and construction methods illustrated by using the powerful NUOPT for S-PLUS optimizer and the S-PLUS computing environment for financial analytics on a wide variety of examples.

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In recent years portfolio optimization and construction methodologies have become an increasingly critical ingredient of asset and fund management, while at the same time portfolio risk assessment has become an essential ingredient in risk management, and this trend will only accelerate in the coming years. Unfortunately there is a large gap between the limited treatment of portfolio construction methods that are presented in most university courses with relatively little hands-on experience and limited computing tools, and the rich and varied aspects of portfolio construction that are used in practice in the finance industry. Current practice demands the use of modern methods of portfolio construction that go well beyond the classical Markowitz mean-variance optimality theory and require the use of powerful scalable numerical optimization methods. This book fills the gap between current university instruction and current industry practice by providing a comprehensive computationally-oriented treatment of modern portfolio optimization and construction methods. The computational aspect of the book is based on extensive use of S-Plus®, the S+NuOPT optimization module, the S-Plus Robust Library and the S+Bayes Library, along with about 100 S-Plus scripts and some CRSP® sample data sets of stock returns. A special time-limited version of the S-Plus software is available to purchasers of this book.

"For money managers and investment professionals in the field, optimization is truly a can of worms rather left un-opened, until now! Here lies a thorough explanation of almost all possibilities one can think of for portfolio optimization, complete with error estimation techniques and explanation of when non-normality plays a part. A highly recommended and practical handbook for the consummate professional and student alike!"

Steven P. Greiner, Ph.D.

Chief Large Cap Quant & Fundamental Research Manager

Harris Investment Management

"The authors take a huge step in the long struggle to establish applied post-modern portfolio theory. The optimization and statistical techniques generalize the normal linear model to include robustness, non-normality, and semi-conjugate Bayesian analysis via MCMC. The techniques are very clearly demonstrated by the extensive use and tight integration of S-Plus software. Their book should be an enormous help to students and practitioners trying to move beyond traditional modern portfolio theory."

Peter Knez

CIO, Global Head of Fixed Income

Barclays Global Investors 

 

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1441919341
• ISBN 13: 9781441919342
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 428
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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