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Trading strategies generated by Lyapunov functions

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  • Ioannis Karatzas

    (Columbia University
    Intech Investment Management)

  • Johannes Ruf

    (London School of Economics and Political Science)

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Functional portfolio generation, initiated by E.R. Fernholz almost 20 years ago, is a methodology for constructing trading strategies with controlled behavior. It is based on very weak and descriptive assumptions on the covariation structure of the underlying market, and needs no estimation of model parameters. In this paper, the corresponding generating functions G $G$ are interpreted as Lyapunov functions for the vector process μ $\mu $ of relative market weights; that is, via the property that the process G ( μ ) $G (\mu )$ is a supermartingale under an appropriate change of measure. This point of view unifies, generalizes, and simplifies many existing results, and allows the formulation of conditions under which it is possible to outperform the market portfolio over appropriate time horizons. From a probabilistic point of view, the approach offered here yields results concerning the interplay of stochastic discount factors and concave transformations of semimartingales on compact domains.

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  • Ioannis Karatzas & Johannes Ruf, 2017. "Trading strategies generated by Lyapunov functions," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 21(3), pages 753-787, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:finsto:v:21:y:2017:i:3:d:10.1007_s00780-017-0332-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s00780-017-0332-8
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    Keywords

    Stochastic portfolio theory; Functional generation; Relative arbitrage; Regular and Lyapunov functions; Concavity; Semimartingale property; Deflators;
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    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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