Quantitative Portfolio Optimization Techniques Applied to the Brazilian Stock Market

In this paper we assess the out-of-sample performance of two alternative quantitative portfolio optimization techniques - mean-variance and minimum variance optimization – and compare their performance with respect to a naive 1/N (or equally-weighted) portfolio and also to the market portfolio given...

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Main Authors: André Alves Portela Santos, Cristina Tessari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brazilian Society of Finance 2012-09-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Finanças
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Online Access:http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rbfin/article/view/3865