A survey on the four families of performance measures

M Caporin, GM Jannin, F Lisi… - Journal of Economic …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Performance measurement is one of the most studied subjects in financial literature. Since
the introduction of the Sharpe ratio in 1966, a large variety of new measures has appeared …

Forecasting significant stock price changes using neural networks

F Kamalov - Neural Computing and Applications, 2020 - Springer
Stock price prediction is a rich research topic that has attracted interest from various areas of
science. The recent success of machine learning in speech and image recognition has …

Pari-mutuel betting markets: racetracks and lotteries revisited

WT Ziemba - Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
This survey discusses the state of the art in research in racetrack and lottery investment
markets. Market efficiency and the pricing of various wagers are studied along with new …

Evolution in pecunia

R Amir, IV Evstigneev, T Hens… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The paper models evolution in pecunia—in the realm of finance. Financial markets are
explored as evolving biological systems. Diverse investment strategies compete for the …

A response to Professor Paul A. Samuelson's objections to Kelly capital growth investing

WT Ziemba - Journal of Portfolio Management, 2015 - search.proquest.com
The Kelly capital growth investment strategy maximizes the expected utility of final wealth
with a Bernoulli logarithmic utility function. In 1956, Kelly showed that static expected log …

[BOOK][B] The Adventures of a Modern Renaissance Academic in Investing and Gambling

WT Ziemba - 2017 - World Scientific
There is no way my travels and experiences can begin to match Leonardo's but at least I set
a high goal. In this book, I trace a career from a small town in Massachusetts to the big time …

Response to Paul A Samuelson letters and papers on the Kelly capital growth investment strategy

WT Ziemba - Available at SSRN 2161068, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Strategy (KCGIS) is to maximize the expected
utility of nal wealth with a logarithmic utility function. This approach dates to Bernoulli's 1738 …

How to lose money in derivatives: Examples from hedge funds and bank trading departments

S Lleo, WT Ziemba - The World Scientific Handbook of Futures …, 2016 - World Scientific
What makes futures hedge funds fail? The common ingredient is over betting and not being
diversified in some bad scenarios that can lead to disaster. Once troubles arise, it is difficult …

Superstar investors

J Brooks, S Tsuji, D Villalon - The Journal of Investing, 2019 - pm-research.com
—Warren Buffett, 1994 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report Many famous investors are out-
spoken about their investment philosophies, and carefully apply them to a select number of …

An integrated risk-budgeting approach for multi-strategy equity portfolios

RL de Carvalho, X Lu, P Moulin - Journal of Asset Management, 2014 - Springer
The authors propose a robust optimisation approach to construct realistic constrained multi-
strategy portfolios that starts with the identification of different sources of excess returns and …