An investment is a commitment of funds made in the expectation of some positive rate of return. A fundamental principle of investments is diversification, where investors diversify their investments into different types of financial assets. The different stocks can be clubbed in one portfolio....

We implement a long-horizon static and dynamic portfolio allocation involving a risk-free and a risky asset. This model is calibrated at a quarterly frequency for ten European countries. We also use maximum-likelihood estimates and Bayesian estimates to account for parameter uncertainty. We find...

Diversification has been long considered an essential part of investing for the long term. Our paper aims to look further on portfolio diversification and how asset allocation can be optimized. We suggest that the selection of investments in a portfolio should be based on how the market behaves...