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Scientific Approaches: Towards the Efficient Frontier<br />

• Scientific diversification aims at reaching a high risk/return<br />

objective through portfolio construction techniques.<br />

• Two remarkable portfolios on the efficient frontier:<br />

– The MSR generates the highest reward per unit of portfolio<br />

volatility: needed optimization inputs are expected returns,<br />

correlations and volatilities.<br />

– The GMV generates the lowest possible portfolio volatility: needed<br />

optimization inputs are correlations and volatilities.<br />

• In what follows, we focus on these two approaches, and discuss<br />

some of the challenges involved in robust optimization.<br />

• Ad-hoc approaches can generally be regarded as specific cases<br />

under some particular assumptions.<br />

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