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Efficient Asset Management: A Practical Guide to Stock Portfolio Optimization and Asset Allocation
by Richard O. Michaud






[size=120%]Efficient Asset Management: A Practical Guide to Stock Portfolio Optimization and Asset Allocation
Second Edition
By Richard O. Michaud and Robert O. Michaud


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Amazon.com Review:
In spite of theoretical benefits, Markowitz mean-variance (MV)optimized portfolios often fail to meet practical investment goals ofmarketability, usability, and performance, prompting many investors toseek simpler alternatives. Financial experts Richard and Robert Michaud demonstrate that
the limitations of MV optimization are not the result of conceptualflaws in Markowitz theory but unrealistic representation of investmentinformation. What is missing is a realistic treatment of estimationerror in the optimization and rebalancing process.

The text provides a non-technical review of classical Markowitzoptimization and traditional objections. The authors demonstrate thatin practice the single most important limitation of MV optimization isoversensitivity to estimation error. Portfolio optimization requires amodern statistical
perspective. Efficient Asset Management, Second Editionuses Monte Carlo resampling to address information uncertainty anddefine Resampled Efficiency(TM) (RE) technology. RE optimizedportfolios represent a new definition of portfolio optimality that ismore investment intuitive, robust, and
provably investment effective. RE rebalancing provides the firstrigorous portfolio trading, monitoring, and asset importance rules,avoiding widespread ad hoc methods in current practice.

The Second Edition resolves several open issues and misunderstandingsthat have emerged since the original edition. The new edition includesnew proofs of effectiveness, substantial revisions of statisticalestimation, extensive discussion of long-short optimization, and newtools for dealing with
estimation error in applications and enhancing computationalefficiency. RE optimization is shown to be a Bayesian-basedgeneralization and enhancement of Markowitz's solution. RE technologycorrects many current practices that may adversely impact theinvestment value of trillions of dollars under
current asset management. RE optimization technology may also be usefulin other financial optimizations and more generally in multivariateestimation contexts of information uncertainty with Bayesian linearconstraints.



Summary: Important information when considering Markowitz optimization
Rating: 4
Michaud's resampling methodology is quite rigorous, although thepatentability of application of econometric concepts that are over 40years old to a theory advanced by Markowitz in 1952 should be seriouslyquestioned by any rational reader. The applicability of resampling andimprovements to the inputs to estimation are clear, and should bestrongly considered by anyone in the asset management industry. Thebook glosses over other approaches to optimization that are not basedon Markowitz, all but ignoring the huge body of literature that hasbeen built up around other optimization approaches. Except for thisshortfall, this is an excellent book, and shoulds be a part of your library on quantitative asset management.

1 Introduction 3
Markowitz Effi ciency 3
An Asset Management Tool 4
Traditional Objections 5
The Most Important Limitations 5
Resolving the Limitations of Mean-Variance
Optimization 6
Illustrating the Techniques 6
2 Classic Mean-Variance Optimization 7
Portfolio Risk and Return 7
Defi ning Markowitz Effi ciency 9
Optimization Constraints 9
The Residual Risk-Return Effi cient Frontier 10
Computer Algorithms 10
Asset Allocation Versus Equity Portfolio Optimization 11
A Global Asset Allocation Example 13
Reference Portfolios and Portfolio Analysis 14
Return Premium Effi cient Frontiers 16
Appendix: Mathematical Formulation of MV Effi ciency 17
3 Traditional Criticisms and Alternatives 20
Alternative Measures of Risk 20
Utility Function Optimization 22
Multiperiod Investment Horizons 23
Asset-Liability Financial Planning Studies 25
Linear Programming Optimization 27
4 Unbounded MV Portfolio Effi ciency 29
Unbounded MV Optimization 30
The Fundamental Limitations of Unbounded
MV Effi ciency 31
Repeating Jobson and Korkie 32
Implications of Jobson and Korkie Analysis 33
Statistical MV Effi ciency and Implications 34
5 Linear Constrained MV Effi ciency 35
Linear Constraints 35
Effi cient Frontier Variance 37
Rank-Associated Effi cient Portfolios 39
How Practical an Investment Tool? 40
6 The Resampled Effi cient Frontier™ 42
Effi cient Frontier Statistical Analysis 42
Properties of Resampled Effi cient Frontier Portfolios 45
True and Estimated Optimization Inputs 47
Simulation Proofs of Resampled Effi ciency Optimization 48
Why Does It Work 51
Certainty Level and RE Optimality 51
FC Level Applications 52
The REF Maximum Return Point (MRP) 53
Implications for Asset Management 55
Conclusion 55
Appendix A: Rank- Versus λ-Associated RE Portfolios 56
Appendix B: Robert’s Hedgehog 57
7 Portfolio Rebalancing, Analysis, and Monitoring 60
Resampled Effi ciency and Distance Functions 61
Portfolio Need-to-Trade Probability 62
Meta-Resampling Portfolio Rebalancing 63
Portfolio Monitoring and Analysis 64
Conclusion 66
Contents xv
Appendix: Confi dence Region for the Sample
Mean Vector 66
8 Input Estimation and Stein Estimators 68
Admissible Estimators 69
Bayesian Procedures and Priors 69
Four Stein Estimators 70
James-Stein Estimator 70
James-Stein MV Effi ciency 71
Out-of-Sample James-Stein Estimation 72
Frost-Savarino Estimator 73
Covariance Estimation 74
Stein Covariance Estimation 76
Utility Functions and Input Estimation 77
Ad Hoc Estimators 77
Stein Estimation Caveats 78
Conclusions 78
Appendix: Ledoit Covariance Estimation 78
9 Benchmark Mean-Variance Optimization 80
Benchmark-Relative Optimization Characteristics 80
Tracking Error Optimization and Constraints 81
Constraint Alternatives 83
Roll’s Analysis 85
Index Effi ciency 85
A Simple Benchmark-Relative Framework 86
Long-Short Investing 86
Conclusion 88
10 Investment Policy and Economic Liabilities 89
Misusing Optimization 90
Economic Liability Models 90
Endowment Fund Investment Policy 91
Pension Liabilities and Benchmark Optimization 92
Limitations of Actuarial Liability Estimation 92
Current Pension Liabilities 93
Total and Variable Pension Liabilities 93
Economic Signifi cance of Variable Liabilities 94
Economic Characteristics of VBO Liabilities 95
xvi Contents
An Example: Economic Liability Pension
Investment Policy 96
Past and Future of Defi ned Benefi t Pension Plans 98
Conclusion 99
11 Bayes and Active Return Estimation 101
Current Practices 102
Bayes Principles 102
The Bayes Return Formula 102
A Bayes Panel Illustration 103
Bayesian Mixed Estimation Issues 104
Enhanced Inputs or Enhanced Optimizer 106
Bayesian Caveats 107
12 Avoiding Optimization Errors 109
Scaling Inputs 109
Financial Reality 111
Liquidity Factors 111
Practical Constraint Issues 112
Biased Portfolio Characteristics 112
Index Funds and Optimizers 113
Optimization from Cash 114
Forecast Return Limitations 115
Conclusion 116
Epilogue 117
Bibliography 119
Index 125
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2009-11-24 12:41:18
很好的书,也很新,谢楼主。
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2009-11-24 15:50:10
Thanks !!!!
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2009-11-24 16:09:41
google搜出一堆2001的,楼主出版时间写错了吧,不应该是2008吧

Hardcover: 152 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 16, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0875847439
ISBN-13: 978-0875847436
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2009-11-24 17:54:41
zxl19 发表于 2009-11-24 16:09
google搜出一堆2001的,楼主出版时间写错了吧,不应该是2008吧

Hardcover: 152 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 16, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0875847439
ISBN-13: 978-0875847436
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我用的介绍是2001年的,但是内容的确是2008年的,这个大可以放心,不是的话我把钱全退回去!
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2010-1-23 17:14:34
Thank you,LZ~~~~~~
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