Portfolio Optimization

Michael J. Best

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Chapman & Hall/CRC
14 October 2024

Product design; Economics; Finance & accounting; Engineering: general; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Chapman and Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series

Eschewing a more theoretical approach, Portfolio Optimization shows how the mathematical tools of linear algebra and optimization can quickly and clearly formulate important ideas on the subject. This practical book extends the concepts of the Markowitz ""budget constraint only"" model to a linearly constrained model.

Only requiring elementary linear algebra, the text begins with the necessary and sufficient conditions for optimal quadratic minimization that is subject to linear equality constraints. It then develops the key properties of the efficient frontier, extends the results to problems with a risk-free asset, and presents Sharpe ratios and implied risk-free rates. After focusing on quadratic programming, the author discusses a constrained portfolio optimization problem and uses an algorithm to determine the entire (constrained) efficient frontier, its corner portfolios, the piecewise linear expected returns, and the piecewise quadratic variances. The final chapter illustrates infinitely many implied risk returns for certain market portfolios.

Drawing on the author’s experiences in the academic world and as a consultant to many financial institutions, this text provides a hands-on foundation in portfolio optimization. Although the author clearly describes how to implement each technique by hand, he includes several MATLAB® programs designed to implement the methods and offers these programs on the accompanying downloadable resources.

By: Michael J. Best
Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 439g
ISBN: 9781032925967
ISBN 10: 1032925965
Series: Chapman and Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael J. Best is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Best has authored over 37 papers on finance and nonlinear programming and co-authored a textbook on linear programming. He also has been a consultant to Bank of America, Ibbotson Associates, Montgomery Assets Management, Deutsche Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank, and Black Rock-Merrill Lynch.

Reviews for Portfolio Optimization

Michael Best’s book is the ideal combination of optimization and portfolio theory. Mike has provided a wealth of practical examples in MATLAB to give students hands-on portfolio optimization experience. The included stand-alone MATLAB code even provides its own quadratic solver, so that students do not need to rely on any external packages. —David Starer, Stevens Institute of Technology Overall, this is a nice book that would be ideal as a textbook for one-semester portfolio optimization courses. It can also be good as a supplementary text for courses in operations research and/or financial engineering. The book is self-contained enough to be used as study material for those who want to teach themselves portfolio optimization and related computer programming, be they advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, or financial practitioners. —Youngna Choi, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012a … an excellent companion text for the course ‘Discrete-Time Models in Finance’ that I have been teaching in the past years. … I think adding your text can make the course more lively. This is what I plan to do in the coming (fall) semester. —Edward P. Kao, University of Houston, Texas, USA