Tangent Portfolio Weights without Explicitly Specified Expected Returns

Journal of Asset Management, Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 177-190, June 2014

26 Pages Posted: 15 Aug 2017

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Paskalis Glabadanidis

Essential Services Commission of South Australia

Date Written: June 9, 2014

Abstract

In this article, I propose an extension of the Treynor-Black model to a case where the investor is not fully invested in the stock market at the outset and there is no need to explicitly specify securities' expected returns. I derive explicit tangent portfolio weights based on a factor model of securities' expected returns. The computational burden of the model is linear in the number of securities in the portfolio and does not involve any matrix inversion. I present an empirical application using the market model of Sharpe, the three-factor model of Fama and French and the four-factor model of Carhart with up to 30 industry portfolios between 1963 and 2012 and up to 1000 US stocks starting in 1992 until 2012. The portfolios perform well out-of-sample relative to the entire US value-weighted stock market portfolio with dividends reinvested from the Center for Research in Security Prices. The proposed framework can be extended in a straightforward way to time-varying models with multiple state variables affecting securities' expected returns and factor loadings.

Keywords: Tangent Portfolio Weights, Factor Models of Expected Returns, Market Model, Fama and French Three-Factor Model, Carhart Four-Factor Model, Out-Of-Sample Realized Active Return

JEL Classification: G11, G12

Suggested Citation

Glabadanidis, Paskalis, Tangent Portfolio Weights without Explicitly Specified Expected Returns (June 9, 2014). Journal of Asset Management, Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 177-190, June 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3018324 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3018324

Paskalis Glabadanidis (Contact Author)

Essential Services Commission of South Australia ( email )

Level 1, 151 Pirie Street
Adelaide, SA 5001
Australia

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