Title :
Universal portfolios with short sales and margin
Author :
Cover, Thomas ; Ordentlich, Erik
Author_Institution :
Inf. Syst. Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
In the horizon-free universal portfolio and the fixed horizon minimax regret portfolio, the only allowed portfolios are those that allocate a nonnegative proportion of wealth to each of the assets. It was shown that a Dirichlet(1/2)-weighting of constant rebalanced portfolios was asymptotically minimax regret in growth rate and therefore universal. We extend these results to bounded stocks and portfolios allowing margin and short sales
Keywords :
investment; minimax techniques; stock markets; Dirichlet(1/2)-weighting; assets; bounded stocks; constant rebalanced portfolios; fixed horizon minimax regret portfolio; growth rate; horizon-free universal portfolio; margin; minimax regret; short sales; universal portfolios; wealth; Finance; Information systems; Information theory; Laboratories; Marketing and sales; Milling machines; Minimax techniques; Polynomials; Portfolios; Tin;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5000-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1998.708770