Journal
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 104, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2021.102479
Keywords
Data envelopment analysis; Portfolio selection; Multiple data sources; Support vector machine; Out-of-sample test
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71771082, 71801091]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [2020JJ5377]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020M682577]
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Macroeconomic Big Data Mining and its Application
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This study focuses on stock selection and investment weight formulation, designing a stock selection scheme integrating DEA and multiple data sources, and using SVM to predict stock price movements, resulting in a more optimal portfolio optimization model. Empirical results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can enhance the performance of all investment strategies and outperform traditional strategies.
The existing literature suggests that the out-of-sample performance of traditional mean-variance portfolio strategies is not robust, and their performance is even inferior to that of the equal weight strategy. To address this problem, this paper first clarifies that a complete investment process consists of two parts, namely, stock selection and investment weight formulation. Then, we design a stock selection scheme integrating Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with multiple data sources, including historical stock trading data, technical indicators, social media data and news data, to assess the investment value of stocks in terms of historical return, asset correlation and investor sentiment performance. In addition, we use Support Vector Machine (SVM) combined with the multi-source data on stocks to predict the stock price movements and combine the obtained stock price movements and the proposed stock selection scheme to construct the portfolio optimization model. Further, we also carry out an out-of-sample test on the proposed stock selection scheme and investment strategies, in which the constituents of CSI 300 index are selected as the test samples. The empirical results show that the proposed stock selection scheme can effectively improve the out-of-sample performance of all investment strategies. Besides, the proposed investment strategy has a better out-of-sample performance compared to the traditional global minimum variance investment strategy, tangency portfolio investment strategy, and equal weight strategy. Finally, we perform a robustness test of the above findings using an additional dataset. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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