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Portfolio Construction Workshop

Apply expected returns, variance, covariance, and correlation to portfolio construction.

Prerequisites: Basic probability and familiarity with calculating returns from price data; basic linear algebra is helpful

  • Portfolio return, variance, and covariance
  • Equal weighting, minimum variance, and constrained mean-variance optimization
  • Covariance estimates, constraints, and estimation error
  • Turnover, transaction costs, and out-of-sample evaluation