Ban Kawas

Short Sales in Log-Robust Portfolio Management

  • Ban Kawas
  • Aurelie Thiele
    • Categories Finance and Economics, Robust Optimization Tags ,

    This paper extends the Log-robust portfolio management approach to the case with short sales, i.e., the case where the manager can sell shares he does not yet own. We model the continuously compounded rates of return, which have been established in the literature as the true drivers of uncertainty, as uncertain parameters belonging to polyhedral … Read more

    A Log-Robust Optimization Approach to Portfolio Management

  • Ban Kawas
  • Aurelie Thiele
    • Categories Finance and Economics, Robust Optimization Tags , ,

    In this paper we present a robust optimization approach to portfolio management under uncertainty that (i) builds upon the well-established Lognormal model for stock prices while addressing its limitations, and (ii) incorporates the imperfect knowledge on the true distribution of the continuously compounded rates of return, i.e., the increments of the logarithm of the stock … Read more