Beyond Hierarchical Risk Parity: Hierarchical Clustering-Based Risk Parity
In a previous post, I introduced the Hierarchical Risk Parity portfolio optimization algorithm1. See Lopez de Prado, M. (2016). Building dive...
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2021
Hierarchical Risk Parity: Introducing Graph Theory and Machine Learning in Portfolio Optimizer
In this short post, I will introduce the Hierarchical Risk Parity portfolio optimization algorithm, initially described by Marcos Lopez de Prado1, and recen...
Correlation Matrix Stress Testing: Shrinkage Toward an Equicorrelation Matrix
Financial research has consistently shown that correlations between assets tend to increase during crises and tend to decrease during recoveries1. ...
Residualization of Risk Factors: Examples and Pitfalls
The most common approach to measuring portfolio (risk) factor exposures is linear regression analysis, which describes the relationship between a dependent ...
Replicating the J.P. Morgan Efficiente Index
The J.P. Morgan Efficiente 5 Index is a tactical asset allocation strategy designed by J.P. Morgan based on a broad universe of 13 ETFs.
Crypto-assets portfolio optimization and trade order creation with Google Sheets
Crypto-assets (Bitcoin, Ethereum…) have recently been attracting the attention of more and more investors, with for example JPMorgan Chase & Co. suggesti...
When a correlation matrix is not a correlation matrix, let’s compute the nearest correlation matrix
Estimating how individual assets are moving together is an important part of many financial applications1 and the most commonly used measure for this is the...
The Portfolio Optimization Machine
In 2018, guys at ReSolve Asset Management published the paper Portfolio Optimization: A General Framework for Portfolio Choice in which they describe
2020
Random portfolios as benchmarks for tactical asset allocation strategies
If you are familiar with tactical asset allocation (TAA) strategies, like the Global Equities Momentum (GEM) TAA strategy of Gary Antonacci, you know how har...
Integration in Excel
In this post, I will show you how to integrate the Portfolio Optimizer Web API in Excel.
Implementing an investable portfolio from an optimal portfolio
As an investor, have you ever wondered how to convert an optimal portfolio1, possibly made of real-valued weights with dozens of decimals (e.g., 12.3456789%)...
Integration in a web page
In this post, I will show how to integrate the Portfolio Optimizer Web API in a web page.
Integration in Google Sheets
In this post, I will show you how to integrate the Portfolio Optimizer Web API in Google Sheets.