Portfolio Optimization Book

Portfolio Optimization Daniel P. Palomar Cambridge University Press, 2024.

This is the homepage for the Portfolio Optimization Book. It contains slides, code examples (R and Python), exercises, and data.

To contribute, check the developer GitHub webpage.

Chapters

Work in progress, updated weekly…

• Chapter 1 - Introduction: slides

Part I - Finantial Data

• Chapter 2 - Financial Data: Stylized Facts: slides , R code

• Chapter 3 - Financial Data: IID Modeling: slides , R code

• Chapter 4 - Financial Data: Time Series Modeling: slides , R code

• Chapter 5 - Financial Data: Graphs

Part II - Portfolio Optimization

• Chapter 6 - Portfolio Basics: slides , R code

• Chapter 7 - Modern Portfolio Theory: slides , R code

• Chapter 8 - Portfolio Backtesting: slides , R code

• Chapter 9 - High-Order Portfolios: slides , R code

• Chapter 10 - Portfolios with Alternative Risk Measures

• Chapter 11 - Risk Parity Portfolios

• Chapter 12 - Graph-Based Portfolios slides , R code

• Chapter 13 - Index Tracking Portfolios

• Chapter 14 - Robust Portfolios

• Chapter 15 - Pairs Trading Portfolios

• Chapter 16 - Deep Learning Portfolios

Appendices

• Appendix A - Convex Optimization Theory: slides

• Appendix B - Optimization Algorithms: slides , R code

Miscellanea

• Sample slide title page with customizable course info on a textbox.

• Stock and crypto data used in the sample code can be conveniently found at https://github.com/dppalomar/pob

Contact

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