Portfolio Choice Beyond the Traditional Approach

50 Pages Posted: 26 Jul 2007

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Francisco Penaranda

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

Date Written: March 2007

Abstract

This paper surveys asset allocation methods that extend the traditional approach. An important feature of the the traditional approach is that measures the risk and return tradeoff in terms of mean and variance of final wealth. However, there are also other important features that are not always made explicit in terms of investor's wealth, information, and horizon: The investor makes a single portfolio choice based only on the mean and variance of her final financial wealth and she knows the relevant parameters in that computation. First, the paper describes traditional portfolio choice based on four basic assumptions, while the rest of the sections extend those assumptions. Each section will describe the corresponding equilibrium implications in terms of portfolio advice and asset pricing.

Keywords: Mean-Variance Analysis, Background Risks, Estimation Error, Expected Utility, Multi-Period Portfolio Choice

JEL Classification: D81, G11, G12

Suggested Citation

Penaranda, Francisco, Portfolio Choice Beyond the Traditional Approach (March 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1003123 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1003123

Francisco Penaranda (Contact Author)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences ( email )

Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27
Barcelona, 08005
Spain

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