Chapter 17: Portfolio Construction

Estimation Error and the Markowitz Curse intermediate

Mean-variance optimization is not fragile because the quadratic program is hard; it is fragile because the optimizer is asked to invert noisy beliefs about returns and covariances.

Mean-variance optimization is not fragile because the quadratic program is hard; it is fragile because the optimizer is asked to invert noisy beliefs about returns and covariances.

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