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Table 1 List of proposed and selected alternative portfolio strategies

From: Research on regularized mean–variance portfolio selection strategy with modified Roy safety-first principle

Symbol

Description

RSMt

\(l_1\)- Squared \(l_2\) penalized mean-Roy safety-first portfolio

RSMVt

\(l_1\)- Squared \(l_2\) penalized mean–variance-Roy safety-first portfolio

minVu

Sample minimum variance without short sale constraint portfolio

minVc

Sample minimum variance with short sale constraint portfolio

MV

Sample mean–variance portfolio

1/N

Equally-weighted portfolio

\(l_1\)-MV

\(l_1\) penalized mean–variance portfolio with short sale constraint (Brodie et al. 2009)

TMN

Linear combination of sample tangency portfolio, sample minimum variance portfolio and 1/N portfolio (Tu and Zhou 2011)

VD

Minimum variance portfolio resulting from using a diagonal covariance matrix (Kirby and Ostdiek 2012)