Portfolio Optimization

Linear and Quadratic solvers in R

N.F. Katzke
2025-08-25

In this practical we explore portfolio optimization

This is an enormous field, so we will only cover it at a comparatively high level.

The practical contains links to various sources that might be useful if you want to explore this further.

See Youtube Video here

See this Bonus practical allowing you to do rolling window optimizations very efficiently:

See this Detailed Example of building a MVO from first principles

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Katzke (2025, Aug. 25). Financial Econometrics Course: Portfolio Optimization. Retrieved from https://www.fmx.nfkatzke.com/posts/2020-08-07-practical-3/

BibTeX citation

@misc{katzke2025portfolio,
  author = {Katzke, N.F.},
  title = {Financial Econometrics Course: Portfolio Optimization},
  url = {https://www.fmx.nfkatzke.com/posts/2020-08-07-practical-3/},
  year = {2025}
}