Back-testing the performance of an actively managed option portfolio at the Swedish Stock Market, 1990–1999

• We build an investment model based on Stochastic Programming. In the model we buy at the ask price and sell at the bid price. We apply the model to a case where we can invest in a Swedish stock index, call options on the index and the risk-free asset. By reoptimizing the portfolio on a daily basis over a ten-year period, it is shown that options can be used to create a portfolio that outperforms the index. With ex post analysis, it is furthermore shown that we can create a portfolio that dominates the index in terms of mean and variance, i.e. at given level of risk we could have achieved a higher return using options.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Portfolio optimization; Derivatives

MATHEMATICS

MATEMATIK

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