Multifractal returns and hierarchical portfolio theory
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Publication:4646471
DOI10.1080/713665541zbMATH Open1405.91564arXivcond-mat/0008069OpenAlexW2145546162MaRDI QIDQ4646471FDOQ4646471
Authors: J. Delour, Alain Arneodo, Jean-François Muzy, D. Sornette 
Publication date: 14 January 2019
Published in: Quantitative Finance (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We extend and test empirically the multifractal model of asset returns based on a multiplicative cascade of volatilities from large to small time scales. The multifractal description of asset fluctuations is generalized into a multivariate framework to account simultaneously for correlations across times scales and between a basket of assets. The reported empirical results show that this extension is pertinent for financial modelling. The second part of the paper applies this theory to portfolio optimisation. Our multi-scale description allows us to characterize the portfolio return distribution at all time scales simultaneously. The portfolio composition is predicted to change with the investment time horizon (i.e., the time scale) in a way that can be fully determined once an adequate measure of risk is chosen. We discuss the use of the fourth-order cumulant and of utility functions. While the portfolio volatility can be optimized in some cases for all time horizons, the kurtosis and higher normalized cumulants cannot be simultaneously optimized. For a fixed investment horizon, we study in details the influence of the number of periods, i.e., of the number of rebalancing of the portfolio. For the large risks quantified by the cumulants of order larger than two, the number of periods has a non-trivial influence, in contrast with Tobin's result valid in the mean-variance framework. This theory provides a fundamental framework for the conflicting optimization involved in the different time horizons and quantifies systematically the trade-offs for an optimal inter-temporal portfolio optimization.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0008069
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