Frahm, Gabriel; Wickern, Tobias; Wiechers, Christof - 2010
In the context of modern portfolio theory, we compare the out-of-sample performance of 8 investment strategies which … are based on statistical methods with the out-of-sample performance of a family of trivial strategies. A wide range of … and a risk-free asset. We provide a way to extend the concept of minimum-variance strategies in the context of short …