均值-方差准则及其应用

在位置-尺度分布族中研究了均值-方差准则与期望效用理论的一致性,特别指出当均值相等时或源的支撑可达到负无穷时,均值-方差准则与期望效用理论是完全一致的,这表明可以用均值-方差准则研究满足条件的经济问题、管理问题.还介绍了均值-方差准则在金融中的一些应用.     

具有交易费用和马氏调制的均值-方差组合选择

研究了均值-方差准则下,最优投资组合选择问题.投资者为了增加财富它可以在金融市场上投资.金融市场由一个无风险资产和n个带跳的风险资产组成,并假设金融市场具有马氏调制,买卖风险资产时,考虑交易费用.目标是,在终值财富的均值等于d的限制下,使终值财富的方差最小,即均值-方差组合选择问题.应用随机控制的理论解决该问题,获得了最优的投资策略和有效边界.     

具有随机工资的养老金最优投资问题

在三种目标函数下, 研究了具有随机工资的养老金最优投资问题. 第一种是均值-方差准则, 第二种基于效用的随机微分博弈, 第三种基于均值-方差准则的随机微分博弈. 随机微分博弈问题中博弈的双方为养老金计划投资者和金融市场, 金融市场是博弈的虚拟手. 应用线性二次控制理论求得了三种目标函数下的最优策略和值函数的显式解.     

基于期望效用理论的二行动线性决策问题研究

首先讨论了位置-尺度分布族条件下期望效用准则的一个等价条件,然盾利用等价条件研究了期望效用准则下二行动线性决策问题的解.研究发现,二行动线性决策问题的解在不同的决策准则下是不同的.这正是为什么人们在面对二行动决策问题时所采取不同行动的原因所在.     

具有马氏调制的风险模型的均值-方差组合选择问题

本文研究了保险市场上的均值-方差组合选择问题.本文利用线性二次控制理论,得到了最优策略和有效的均值-方差边界的显示解.     

加权均值方差准则下的最优资本分配

本文考虑相依风险情形下的最优资本分配问题.采用随机加权损失函数,在期望-方差准则下,研究最优资本分配解的存在性,分析加权随机变量选取.进一步,文章提出了以破产概率作为模型评价标准,采用随机模拟的方法分别求解不同模型最优资本分配和相应的破产概率,对模型做出评价.最后,在假设相依风险分别为多元正态分布和多元t分布的情形下,用数值模拟的方法对本文提出的加权期望-方差模型与Dhaene提出的加权均值模型和XU和MAO提出的尾部均值方差模型进行比较,结果显示在破产概率准则下,本文提出的加权期望-方差模型所给出的资金分配比例显著优于其他模型.     

基于均值-方差准则的保险公司最优投资策略

研究了保险公司在均值-方差准则下的最优投资问题,其中保险公司的盈余过程由带随机扰动的Cramer-Lundberg模型刻画,而且保险公司可将其盈余投资于无风险资产和一种风险资产.利用随机动态规划方法,通过求解相应的HJB方程,得到了均值方差模型的最优投资策略和有效前沿.最后,给出了数值算例说明扰动项对有效前沿的影响.     

均值-方差准则下具有利率和通胀双重风险的资产负债管理问题

在均值-方差准则下研究具有利率风险和通胀风险的资产负债管理问题.首先,利用Lagrange乘子技术将这个资产负债管理问题转化为一个标准的均值-方差有效问题.然后,利用Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman方法、偏微分方程方法和Lagrange对偶定理得到原问题有效的投资策略和有效前沿的解析表达式.最后,在解析表达式的基础上,通过数值算例分析了模型主要参数对投资策略和有效前沿的影响.     

不同均值-风险准则下的资产组合有效前沿比较研究

本文根据V aR和CV aR风险度量方法,对马克维茨的均值-方差资产组合选择模型进行拓展,研究在均值-风险准则下更具有一般性的资产组合选择问题.并在正态分布假设条件下,证明当不存在无风险资产时和存在无风险资产时,基于方差、V aR和CV aR风险度量准则的资产组合有有沿之间的关系,指出根据均值-V aR准则和均值-CV aR准则求解有效资产组合时,置信水平必须满足的条件     

均值-方差准则下具有负债的随机微分博弈

研究了均值-方差准则下,具有负债的随机微分博弈.研究目标是:在终值财富的均值等于k的限制下,在市场出现最坏的情况下找到最优的投资策略使终值财富的方差最小.即:基于均值-方差随机微分博弈的投资组合选择问题.使用线性-二次控制的理论解决了该问题,获得了最优的投资策略、最优市场策略和有效边界的显示解.并通过对所得结果进行进一步分析,在经济上给出了进一步的解释.通过本文的研究,可以指导金融公司在面临负债和金融市场情况恶劣时,选择恰当的投资策略使自身获得一定的财富而面临的风险最小.     

Single-Period Markowitz Portfolio Selection,Performance Gauging,and Duality: A Variation on the Luenberger Shortage Function

The Markowitz portfolio theory (Ref. 1) has stimulated research into the efficiency of portfolio management. This paper studies existing nonparametric efficiency measurement approaches for single-period portfolio selection from a theoretical perspective and generalizes currently used efficiency measures into the full mean-variance space. We introduce the efficiency improvement possibility function (a variation on the shortage function), study its axiomatic properties in the context of the Markowitz efficient frontier, and establish a link to the indirect mean-variance utility function. This framework allows distinguishing between portfolio efficiency and allocative efficiency; furthermore, it permits retrieving information about the revealed risk aversion of investors. The efficiency improvement possibility function provides a more general framework for gauging the efficiency of portfolio management using nonparametric frontier envelopment methods based on quadratic optimization.     

A simple insurance model: optimal coverage and deductible

An insurance model, with realistic assumptions about coverage, deductible and premium, is studied. Insurance is shown to decrease the variance of the cost to the insured, but increase the expected cost, a tradeoff that places our model in the Markowitz mean-variance model.     

Portfolio Selection: A Review

This paper reviews portfolio selection models and provides perspective on some open issues. It starts with a review of the classic Markowitz mean-variance framework. It then presents the intertemporal portfolio choice approach developed by Merton and the fundamental notion of dynamic hedging. Martingale methods and resulting portfolio formulas are also reviewed. Their usefulness for economic insights and numerical implementations is illustrated. Areas of future research are outlined.     

奇异协方差阵及不同借贷利率下均值—方差模型的解析解

随着金融资产种类的增加,特别是考虑大规模投资组合问题时,很可能出现资产间的多重共线性或相关性,从而出现协方差阵奇异的情况。然而,目前关于投资组合的均值—方差分析大都是在协方差阵正定的条件下得到的,因此,不适用于奇异协方差阵的情形。针对这一问题,利用广义逆矩阵研究了协方差阵奇异时的均值—方差投资组合模型,在不同借贷利率条件下得到了前沿组合和组合前沿的解析解,突破了传统方法中要求协方差阵可逆的限制,推广了经典Markowitz模型。     

Classical mean-variance model revisited: pseudo efficiency

Investigating the inverse problem of the classical Markowitz mean-variance formulation: Given a mean-variance pair, find initial investment levels and their corresponding portfolio policies such that the given mean-variance pair can be realized, we reveal that any mean-variance pair inside the reachable region can be achieved by multiple portfolio policies associated with different initial investment levels. Therefore, in the mean-variance world for a market of all risky assets, the common belief of monotonicity: ‘The larger you invest, the larger expected future wealth you can expect for a given risk (variance) level’ does not hold, which stimulates us to extend the classical two-objective mean-variance framework to an expanded three-objective framework: to maximize the mean and minimize the variance of the final wealth as well as to minimize the initial investment level. As a result, we eliminate from the policy candidate list the set of pseudo efficient policies that are efficient in the original mean-variance space, but inefficient in this newly introduced three-dimensional objective space.     

工件具有任意尺寸的混合分批平行机排序问题的近似算法

本文考虑了工件具有任意尺寸且机器有容量限制的混合分批平行机排序问题。在该问题中, 一个待加工的工件集需在多台平行批处理机上进行加工。每个工件有它的加工时间和尺寸, 每台机器可以同时处理多个工件, 称为一个批, 只要这些工件尺寸之和不超过其容量; 一个批的加工时间等于该批中工件的最大加工时间和总加工时间的加权和; 目标函数是极小化最大完工时间。该问题包含一维装箱问题为其特殊情形, 为强NP-困难的。对此给出了一个$\left( {2 + 2\alpha+\alpha^{2}}\right)$-近似算法, 其中$\alpha$为给定的权重参数, 满足考虑了不同于Goldfarb和Iyengar （2003）的因子模型,通过横截面回归分析以及Fama-MacBeth估计构造了关于资产的平均收益向量和协方差矩阵的不确定性集合（置信区域）。基于这些不确定性集合以及Markowitz“均值-方差模型”的鲁棒投资组合问题,提出了多个鲁棒投资组合问题,并对应的推导出其等价的半正定规划形式,使得问题可以在多项式时间内求解。     

Markowitz’s mean-variance asset-liability management with regime switching: A continuous-time model

This paper considers an asset-liability management (ALM) problem under a continuous-time Markov regime-switching model. By adopting the techniques of [Zhou, X.Y., Yin, G., 2003. Markowitz’s mean-variance portfolio selection with regime switching: A continuous-time model. SIAM J. Control Optim. 42, 1466–1482], we investigate the feasibility, obtain the optimal strategy, delineate the efficient frontier, and establish the associated mutual fund theorem.     

A geometric look at nuisance parameter effect of local powers in testing hypothesis

This paper is concerned with the theory of testing hypothesis with composite null hypothesis or with nuisance parameters. The asymptotic behaviour of the likelihood ratio and the associated test statistics are investigated. Under a class of local alternatives with local orthogonality relative to the nuisance parameter vector, a unique decomposition of local power is presented. The decomposition consists of two parts; one is the influence of nuisance parameters and the other is the power corresponding to the simple case where the nuisance parameters are known. The decomposition formula is applied to some examples, including the gamma, Weibull and location-scale family.     

Heuristic algorithms for the cardinality constrained efficient frontier

This paper examines the application of genetic algorithm, tabu search and simulated annealing metaheuristic approaches to finding the cardinality constrained efficient frontier that arises in financial portfolio optimisation. We consider the mean-variance model of Markowitz as extended to include the discrete restrictions of buy-in thresholds and cardinality constraints. Computational results are reported for publicly available data sets drawn from seven major market indices involving up to 1318 assets. Our results are compared with previous results given in the literature illustrating the effectiveness of the proposed metaheuristics in terms of solution quality and computation time.