Asset Pricing Models: Implications for Expected Returns and Portfolio Selection

43 Pages Posted: 27 Aug 1998

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A. Craig Mackinlay

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department

Lubos Pastor

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Date Written: December 1999

Abstract

Implications of factor-based asset pricing models for estimation of expected returns and for portfolio selection are investigated. In the presence of model mispricing due to a missing factor, the mispricing and the residual covariance matrix are linked together. Imposing a strong form of this link leads to expected return estimates that are more precise and more stable over time than unrestricted estimates. Optimal portfolio weights that incorporate the link when no factors are observable are proportional to expected return estimates, effectively using an identity matrix as a covariance matrix. The resulting portfolios perform well both in simulations and in out-of-sample comparisons.

JEL Classification: G11, G12

Suggested Citation

MacKinlay, Archie Craig and Pastor, Lubos, Asset Pricing Models: Implications for Expected Returns and Portfolio Selection (December 1999). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=112748 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.112748

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