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most citedCovariance matrix filtering and portfolio optimisation: the Average Oracle vs Non-Linear Shrinkage and all the variants of DCC-NLS

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17 papers

q-fin.RM2025

Noise-proofing Universal Portfolio Shrinkage

Paul Ruelloux, Christian Bongiorno, Damien Challet

We enhance the Universal Portfolio Shrinkage Approximator (UPSA) of Kelly et al. (2023) by making it more robust with respect to estimation noise and covariate shift. UPSA optimize…

q-fin.ST2023★ 2 cited

Covariance matrix filtering and portfolio optimisation: the Average Oracle vs Non-Linear Shrinkage and all the variants of DCC-NLS

Christian Bongiorno, Damien Challet

The Average Oracle, a simple and very fast covariance filtering method, is shown to yield superior Sharpe ratios than the current state-of-the-art (and complex) methods, Dynamic Co…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Optimal Covariance Cleaning for Heavy-Tailed Distributions: Insights from Information Theory

Christian Bongiorno, Marco Berritta

In optimal covariance cleaning theory, minimizing the Frobenius norm between the true population covariance matrix and a rotational invariant estimator is a key step. This estimato…

q-fin.ST2022

Statistical inference of lead-lag at various timescales between asynchronous time series from p-values of transfer entropy

Christian Bongiorno, Damien Challet

Symbolic transfer entropy is a powerful non-parametric tool to detect lead-lag between time series. Because a closed expression of the distribution of Transfer Entropy is not known…

q-fin.PM2021

Non-linear shrinkage of the price return covariance matrix is far from optimal for portfolio optimisation

Christian Bongiorno, Damien Challet

Portfolio optimization requires sophisticated covariance estimators that are able to filter out estimation noise. Non-linear shrinkage is a popular estimator based on how the Oracl…

stat.AP2021

Cleaning the covariance matrix of strongly nonstationary systems with time-independent eigenvalues

Christian Bongiorno, Damien Challet, Grégoire Loeper

We propose a data-driven way to reduce the noise of covariance matrices of nonstationary systems. In the case of stationary systems, asymptotic approaches were proved to converge t…