Shocks-adaptive Robust Minimum Variance Portfolio for a Large Universe of Assets
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| author | Fan, Qingliang Wu, Ruike Yang, Yanrong |
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| contents | This paper proposes a robust, shocks-adaptive portfolio in a large-dimensional assets universe where the number of assets could be comparable to or even larger than the sample size. It is well documented that portfolios based on optimizations are sensitive to outliers in return data. We deal with outliers by proposing a robust factor model, contributing methodologically through the development of a robust principal component analysis (PCA) for factor model estimation and a shrinkage estimation for the random error covariance matrix. This approach extends the well-regarded Principal Orthogonal Complement Thresholding (POET) method (Fan et al., 2013), enabling it to effectively handle heavy tails and sudden shocks in data. The novelty of the proposed robust method is its adaptiveness to both global and idiosyncratic shocks, without the need to distinguish them, which is useful in forming portfolio weights when facing outliers. We develop the theoretical results of the robust factor model and the robust minimum variance portfolio. Numerical and empirical results show the superior performance of the new portfolio. |
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| spellingShingle | Shocks-adaptive Robust Minimum Variance Portfolio for a Large Universe of Assets Fan, Qingliang Wu, Ruike Yang, Yanrong Portfolio Management Methodology This paper proposes a robust, shocks-adaptive portfolio in a large-dimensional assets universe where the number of assets could be comparable to or even larger than the sample size. It is well documented that portfolios based on optimizations are sensitive to outliers in return data. We deal with outliers by proposing a robust factor model, contributing methodologically through the development of a robust principal component analysis (PCA) for factor model estimation and a shrinkage estimation for the random error covariance matrix. This approach extends the well-regarded Principal Orthogonal Complement Thresholding (POET) method (Fan et al., 2013), enabling it to effectively handle heavy tails and sudden shocks in data. The novelty of the proposed robust method is its adaptiveness to both global and idiosyncratic shocks, without the need to distinguish them, which is useful in forming portfolio weights when facing outliers. We develop the theoretical results of the robust factor model and the robust minimum variance portfolio. Numerical and empirical results show the superior performance of the new portfolio. |
| title | Shocks-adaptive Robust Minimum Variance Portfolio for a Large Universe of Assets |
| topic | Portfolio Management Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01826 |