Title :
Portfolio optimization for capital investment projects
Author :
April, Jay ; Glover, Fred ; Kelly, James
Author_Institution :
OptTek Syst. Inc., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
The new portfolio optimization engine, OptFolio™, Simultaneously addresses financial return goals, catastrophic loss avoidance, and performance probability. The innovations embedded in OptFolio enable users to confidently design effective plans for achieving financial goals, employing accurate analysis based on real data. Traditional analysis and prediction methods are based on mean variance analysis - an approach known to be faulty. OptFolio takes a much more sophisticated and strategic direction. State-of-the-art technology integrates optimization and simulation techniques and a new surface methodology based on linear programming into a global system that guides a series of evaluations to reveal truly optimal investment scenarios. OptFolio is currently being used to optimize project portfolio performance in oil and gas applications and in capital allocation and budgeting for investments in technology.
Keywords :
budgeting data processing; digital simulation; financial data processing; investment; linear programming; optimisation; OptFolio; budgeting; capital allocation; capital investment projects; catastrophic loss avoidance; financial return goals; gas applications; global system; linear programming; mean variance analysis; oil applications; performance probability; plans; portfolio optimization engine; surface methodology; technology; Analysis of variance; Data analysis; Engines; Investments; Linear programming; Optimization methods; Performance loss; Portfolios; Prediction methods; Technological innovation;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Winter
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7614-5
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2002.1166431