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Power-law Portfolios

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Portfolio optimization methods suffer from a catalogue of known problems, mainly due to the facts that pair correlations of asset returns are unstable, and that extremal risk measures such as maximum drawdown are difficult to predict due to the non-Gaussianity of portfolio returns. \\ In order to look at optimal portfolios for arbitrary risk penalty functions, we construct portfolio shapes where the penalty is proportional to a moment of the returns of arbitrary order $p>2$. \\ The resulting component weight in the portfolio scales sub-linearly with its return, with the power-law $w \propto \mu^{1/(p-1)}$. This leads to significantly improved diversification when compared to Kelly portfolios, due to the dilution of the winner-takes-all effect.\\ In the limit of penalty order $p\rightarrow\infty$, we recover the simple trading heuristic whereby assets are allocated a fixed positive weight when their return exceeds the hurdle rate, and zero otherwise. Infinite order power-law portfolios thus fall into the class of perfectly diversified portfolios.

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  • Jan Rosenzweig, 2021. "Power-law Portfolios," Papers 2104.07976, arXiv.org, revised Sep 2021.
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