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The latest edition of the Financial Analysts Journal (FAJ) has an article called “In Defence of Portfolio Optimization”. In it, the authors challenge the notion that traditional mean-variance optimization is inferior to simpler approaches like the equal-weighted portfolio. Most notably, Victor DeMiguel and his colleagues showed about a decade ago that a…
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