Econometrica: Jul, 2003, Volume 71, Issue 4

Frontiers of Stochastically Nondominated Portfolios

https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0262.t01-1-00448
p. 1287-1297

Andrzej Ruszczynski, Robert J. Vanderbei

We consider the problem of constructing a portfolio of finitely many assets whose returns are described by a discrete joint distribution.We propose mean‐risk models that are solvable by linear programming and generate portfolios whose returns are nondominated in the sense of second‐order stochastic dominance. Next, we develop a specialized parametric method for recovering the entire mean‐risk efficient frontiers of these models and we illustrate its operation on a large data set involving thousands of assets and realizations.