Jay's Asset Allocation Blog

Blog about my off-hours work on the problem of Asset Allocation including but not limited to Portfolio Optimization algorithms, algorithms and approaches for improved estimation of Asset Allocation inputs and other potentially related items.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

More Consistent Formulas

Another update to the paper is out, this time I really went through and tried to clean up all the formulas to make them more consistent. This is a general problem in the literature, where different authors use the same symbol for different things sometimes and other times they use different symbols for the same thing.

There are probably still a few holdouts in the paper, but the general rule is I use E(r) for the scalar expected return on a portfolio, and π as the vector of returns from something. I've tried to keep σ and ω straight as well.

Also updated the cookbook to match the paper. This should address the most obvious questions I have been receiving lately regarding my inconsistent formulas.

As always, comments, questions and suggestions are welcome either via the blog comments or via email.

2 Comments:

Blogger Alberto Santini said...

Thanks for updating your paper.

(A little typo in the homepage: http://www.blacklitterman.org/Templates/impl.html should be http://www.blacklitterman.org/impl.html)

February 17, 2009 3:48 AM  
Blogger Jay said...

Thanks Alberto. Still getting the hang of dreamweaver...

February 17, 2009 7:53 PM  

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