Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244549 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 3/2019
Publisher: 
Örebro University School of Business, Örebro
Abstract: 
Covariance matrix of the asset returns plays an important role in the portfolio selection. A number of papers is focused on the case when the covariance matrix is positive definite. In this paper, we consider portfolio selection with a singular covariance matrix. We describe an iterative method based on a second order damped dynamical systems that solves the linear rank-deficient problem approximately. Since the solution is not unique, we suggest one numerical solution that can be chosen from the iterates that balances the size of portfolio and the risk. The numerical study confirms that the method has good convergence properties and gives a solution as good as or better than the constrained least norm Moore-Penrose solution. Finally, we complement our result with an empirical study where we analyze a portfolio with actual returns listed in S&P 500 index.
Subjects: 
Mean-variance portfolio
singular covariance matrix
linear ill-posed problems
second order damped dynamical systems
JEL: 
C10
C44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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