This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all the steps of asset allocation: detecting the market invariants; estimating the invariants' distribution; modeling the market at any horizon; defining optimality; accounting for estimation- and model-risk; including the practitioner's experience...

We develop the idea of using Monte Carlo sampling of random portfolios to solve portfolio investment problems. In this first paper we explore the need for more general optimization tools, and consider the means by which constrained random portfolios may be generated. A practical scheme for the...

This article is concerned with the study of the tail correlation among equity indices by means of dynamic copula functions. The main idea is to consider the impact of the use of copula functions in the accuracy of the model´s parameters and in the computation of Value-at-Risk (VaR). Results...