Journal of the Operations Research Society of China ›› 2018, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (1): 138-158.doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40305-017-0188-9

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Time Consistent Multi-period Worst-Case Risk Measure in Robust Portfolio Selection

Jia Liu1 · Zhi-Ping Chen1 · Yong-Chang Hui1   

  1. 1 Department of Computing Science, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
  • Online:2018-03-30 Published:2018-03-30
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    This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71371152 and 11571270).

Abstract:

In this paper, we first construct a time consistent multi-period worst-case risk measure, which measures the dynamic investment risk period-wise from a distributionally robust perspective. Under the usually adopted uncertainty set, we derive the explicit optimal investment strategy for the multi-period robust portfolio selection problem under the multi-period worst-case risk measure. Empirical results demonstrate that the portfolio selection model under the proposed risk measure is a good complement to existing multi-period robust portfolio selection models using the adjustable robust approach.

Key words: Distributionally robust optimization ·, Multi-period risk measure ·Dynamic portfolio selection ·, Conditional value-at-risk