Optimal Portfolios Under a Correlation Constraint

Forthcoming, Quantitative Finance

27 Pages Posted: 25 May 2016 Last revised: 8 Sep 2020

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Carole Bernard

Grenoble Ecole de Management; Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Dries Cornilly

Asteria Investment Managers

Steven Vanduffel

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Date Written: August 30, 2017

Abstract

Pourbabaee, Kwak, and Pirvu (2016) determine the constant-mix strategy that minimizes Capital at Risk (CaR) under a negative correlation constraint with a benchmark. We extend their result to any increasing law invariant objective function without condition on the sign of the correlation. In doing so we use characterization results of optimal portfolios that were recently established in Bernard, Boyle, and Vanduffel (2014a). We illustrate the theoretical results by establishing the portfolio that has maximum Sharpe ratio under a correlation constraint.

Keywords: Optimal portfolio selection, correlation constraint, Sharpe ratio, Mean-variance, Capital at Risk

Suggested Citation

Bernard, Carole and Cornilly, Dries and Vanduffel, Steven, Optimal Portfolios Under a Correlation Constraint (August 30, 2017). Forthcoming, Quantitative Finance, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2783524 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2783524

Carole Bernard

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Dries Cornilly

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