Chapter 17: Portfolio Construction

Kelly Criterion and Fractional Kelly for Multi-Asset Portfolios intermediate

Kelly sizing maximizes long-run log growth, but the full-Kelly solution is usually too fragile to estimated inputs to be deployed without a haircut.

Kelly sizing maximizes long-run log growth, but the full-Kelly solution is usually too fragile to estimated inputs to be deployed without a haircut.

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Edward O. Thorp (1975) — Elsevier
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A New Interpretation of Information Rate
J. L. Kelly — WORLD SCIENTIFIC
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