Principles of Asset Allocation
Free CFA Level III: Portfolio Management lesson in Asset Allocation. 48 min read, ~7,222 words.
MVO is an "error maximizer", it exploits estimation noise to produce extreme positions. Corner portfolios define where asset classes enter/exit the frontier; any efficient portfolio is a blend of two adjacent corners. Reverse optimization extracts implied returns from market-cap weights, avoiding the estimation error problem. Black-Litterman blends implied equilibrium returns...
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