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ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 176, Issue 1, Pages 221-234Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0586-4
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Capital asset pricing model; Efficient frontier; Market model; Multivariate skew-normal distribution; Multivariate Student distribution; Portfolio selection; Utility functions
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The returns on most financial assets exhibit kurtosis and many also have probability distributions that possess skewness as well. In this paper a general multivariate model for the probability distribution of assets returns, which incorporates both kurtosis and skewness, is described. It is based on the multivariate extended skew-Student-t distribution. Salient features of the distribution are described and these are applied to the task of asset pricing. The paper shows that the market model is non-linear in general and that the sensitivity of asset returns to return on the market portfolio is not the same as the conventional beta, although this measure does arise in special cases. It is shown that the variance of asset returns is time varying and depends on the squared deviation of market portfolio return from its location parameter. The first order conditions for portfolio selection are described. Expected utility maximisers will select portfolios from an efficient surface, which is an analogue of the familiar mean-variance frontier, and which may be implemented using quadratic programming.
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