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Adaptive Strategies for Pension Fund Management

This paper proposes a simulation-based framework for assessing and improving the performance of a pension fund management scheme. This framework is modular and allows the definition of customized performance metrics that are used to assess and iteratively improve asset and liability management polic

Street Traders Math 4 Rigor 7.5 ·  August 18, 2025

Single-Asset Adaptive Leveraged Volatility Control

This paper introduces a methodology for constructing a market index composed of a liquid risky asset and a liquid risk-free asset that achieves a fixed target volatility. Existing volatility-targeting strategies typically scale portfolio exposure inversely with a variance forecast, but such open-loo

Street Traders Math 4.5 Rigor 6.5 ·  March 1, 2026

A Distributed Method for Cooperative Transaction Cost Mitigation

Funds at large portfolio management firms may consist of many portfolio managers (PMs), each managing a portion of the fund and optimizing a distinct objective. Although the PMs determine their trades independently, the trade lists may be netted and executed by the firm. These net trades may be suff

Lab Rats Math 7.5 Rigor 3.5 ·  March 9, 2026

Robust Bond Portfolio Construction via Convex-Concave Saddle Point Optimization

The minimum (worst case) value of a long-only portfolio of bonds, over a convex set of yield curves and spreads, can be estimated by its sensitivities to the points on the yield curve. We show that sensitivity based estimates are conservative, \ie, underestimate the worst case value, and that the ex

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 2.5 ·  December 5, 2022

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