Constrained Quadratic Optimisation: Tools
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The main tools that the Nematrian website makes available
for constrained quadratic optimisation are:
(a) Constrained
Quadratic Optimiser. All purpose constrained quadratic optimiser.
(b) Constrained
Quadratic Portfolio Optimiser. Equivalent tool with inputs specifically
tailored to the portfolio optimisation problem.
(c) Reverse
Quadratic Optimiser. Works out the ‘implied alphas’, i.e. the return
assumptions that need to be held for a portfolio to be optimal (ignoring
constraints), given active positions, standard deviations, a correlation matrix
and a trade-off factor (i.e. risk aversion factor) that corresponds to the
investor’s chosen trade-off between return and risk. Please bear in mind that
if a given set of returns,
,
is optimal in this context then so are
for any
constant (asset class independent) values for
and
.
(d) Tools for plotting
efficient frontiers, including MnPlotQuadraticEfficientFrontier
and MnPlotQuadraticEfficientPortfolios,
which plot the efficient frontier (in risk-return space) and the portfolios
making up the efficient frontier.
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