Portfolio Optimization

Risk-Adjusted Forecast Performance

Closing the gap between statistical forecast accuracy and the Sharpe ratio investors actually care about.

Factor Investing & Factor Timing

Methods for selecting, timing, and combining factors when the zoo is crowded, the cross-section is noisy, and estimation error dominates.

Risk-Adjusting Forecasts for Increased Portfolio Performance

This paper decomposes the Sharpe-ratio gap — the performance cost of estimation error in mean-variance investing — into a mean-forecast error (RAFE) and a precision-alignment error …

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Lost in Translation? Risk-Adjusting RMSE for Economic Forecast Performance

This paper proposes a multivariate risk-adjusted error measure for economic forecast performance and analyzes the limitations of traditional MSE-based measures in capturing the …

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Diversifying Estimation Errors with Unsupervised Machine Learning

Unsupervised ML clustering of assets into equally weighted sub-portfolios dominates both plug-in minimum variance and equally weighted benchmarks, with optimal cluster count around …

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