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Bayesian Filtering for Multi-period Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection

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  • Shubhangi Sikaria
  • Rituparna Sen
  • Neelesh S. Upadhye

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For a long investment time horizon, it is preferable to rebalance the portfolio weights at intermediate times. This necessitates a multi-period market model in which portfolio optimization is usually done through dynamic programming. However, this assumes a known distribution for the parameters of the financial time series. We consider the situation where this distribution is unknown and needs to be estimated from the data that is arriving dynamically. We applied Bayesian filtering through dynamic linear models to sequentially update the parameters. We considered uncertain investment lifetime to make the model more adaptive to the market conditions. These updated parameters are put into the dynamic mean-variance problem to arrive at optimal efficient portfolios. Extensive simulations are conducted to study the effect of varying underlying parameters and investment horizon on the performance of the method. An implementation of this model to the S&P500 illustrates that the Bayesian updating is strongly favored by the data and that it is practically implementable.

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  • Shubhangi Sikaria & Rituparna Sen & Neelesh S. Upadhye, 2019. "Bayesian Filtering for Multi-period Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection," Papers 1911.07526, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2020.
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