In this paper we suggest a behavioral foundation for the reward-risk approach to portfolio selection based on prospect theory. We identify sufficient conditions for mutual fund separation in reward-risk models in general and for prospect theory in particular. It is shown that a prospect theory...

We consider optimization problems for minimizing conditional value atrisk (CVaR) from a computational point of view, with an emphasis on financial applications. As a general solution approach, we suggest to reformulate these CVaR optimization problems as twostage recourse problems of stochastic...

We consider optimization problems for minimizing conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) from a computational point of view, with an emphasis on financial applications. As a general solution approach, we suggest to reformulate these CVaR optimization problems as two-stage recourse problems of...

We develop an algorithm to compute asset allocations for Kahneman and Tversky’s (Econometrica, 47(2), 263–291, 1979) prospect theory. An application to benchmark data as in Fama and French (Journal of Financial Economics, 47(2), 427–465, 1992) shows that the equity premium puzzle is...