Portfolios in the Ibex 35 before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Autor: Víctor M. Adame, Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez, Simon Sosvilla-Rivero
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Applied Economics. 48:3826-3847
ISSN: 1466-4283
0003-6846
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1145352
Popis: In this article, we present an analysis of the effectiveness of various portfolio optimization strategies applied to the stocks included in the Spanish Ibex 35 index, for a period of 14 years, from 2001 until 2014. The period under study includes episodes of volatility and instability in financial markets, incorporating the Global Financial Crisis and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. This implies a challenge in portfolio optimization strategies since the methodologies are restricted to the assignment of positive weights. We have taken for asset allocation the daily returns with an estimation window equal to 1 year and we hold portfolio assets for another year. This article attempts to influence the discussion over whether the naive diversification proves to be an effective strategy as opposed to portfolio optimization models. For that, we evaluate the out-of-sample performance of 15 strategies for asset allocation in the Ibex 35, before and after of the Global Financial Crisis. Our results sugg...
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