The literature shows a substantial portion of momentum profits come from illiquid investments and short-selling, entailing abnormal transaction costs. Concentrating on liquid long-only investments, we investigate momentum using index out-performance portfolio selection (via a modified Sortino...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to originate a proactive approach for the quantification and analysis of liquidity risk for trading portfolios that consist of multiple equity assets. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a coherent modeling method whereby the holding...

In this paper we analyse the effects arising from imposing a Value-at-Risk constraint in an agent's portfolio selection problem. The financial market is incomplete and consists of multiple risky assets (stocks) plus a risk-free asset. The stocks are modelled as exponential Brownian motions with...

This paper develops scenario optimization algorithms for the assessment of investable financial portfolios under crisis market outlooks. To this end, this research study examines from portfolio managers' standpoint the performance of optimum and investable portfolios subject to applying...

This paper fills a fundamental gap in commodity price risk management and optimal portfolio selection literatures by contributing a thorough reflection on trading risk modeling with a dynamic asset allocation process and under the supposition of illiquid and adverse market settings. This paper...