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Table 2 Out-of-sample performance of portfolio strategies on 500 NYSE stocks of sub-sample periods

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

Portfolio selection strategy

SRatio (transaction costs)

SRatio

Risk reduction

Sparsity

Turnover

Panel A : results for January 2006 to December 2008

RSMt (17)

0.6891

0.6902

0.2115

165.1612

0.1517

RSMVt (18)

0.7111

0.7209

0.1801

188.6575

0.1783

minVu

−0.1523

0.1902

0.2561

500

0.4013

minVc

0.2042

0.2821

0.2393

500

0.4209

MV

−0.1745

0.1887

1.0000

500

4.1910

1/N

0.4084

0.4810

0.2710

500

0.3575

\(l_1\)-MV (Brodie et al. 2009)

0.41014

0.5131

0.2604

217.1435

0.3872

TMN (Tu and Zhou 2011)

−0.0158

0.3412

0.2573

500

0.4643

VD (Kirby and Ostdiek 2012)

0.3914

0.4710

0.2104

500

0.4510

Panel B : results for January 2009 to December 2011

RSMt (17)

1.2319

1.2783

0.0932

151.2341

0.0613

RSMVt (18)

1.3012

1.3114

0.0815

203.2533

0.0791

minVu

0.0985

0.4612

0.1044

500

0.2002

minVc

0.4202

0.5319

0.1012

500

0.2125

MV

0.0812

0.4104

1.0000

500

2.1234

1/N

0.7264

0.8041

0.1395

500

0.1453

\(l_1\)-MV (Brodie et al. 2009)

0.9011

0.9511

0.1391

326.5532

0.1877

TMN (Tu and Zhou 2011)

0.2216

0.6013

0.1091

500

0.2563

VD (Kirby and Ostdiek 2012)

0.8153

0.8921

0.0995

500

0.2418

Panel C : results for January 2012 to December 2015

RSMt (17)

1.3112

1.3205

0.0901

195.0186

0.0717

RSMVt (18)

1.3813

1.3984

0.0737

245.1227

0.0801

minVu

0.1120

0.4824

0.1018

500

0.2011

minVc

0.4413

0.5302

0.1006

500

0.2289

MV

0.1091

0.4591

1.0000

500

2.3914

1/N

0.7641

0.8321

0.1391

500

0.1465

\(l_1\)-MV (Brodie et al. 2009)

0.9403

0.9821

0.1294

267.8271

0.1903

TMN (Tu and Zhou 2011)

0.2426

0.63841

0.1067

500

0.2613

VD (Kirby and Ostdiek 2012)

0.8534

0.9010

0.0945

500

0.2485

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