Making a Markowitz portfolio with agricultural commodity futures

Portfolio Diversification with Commodity Futures: Properties of Levered Futures

Markowitz Portfolio Rebalancing with Turnover Monitoring

Portfolio management starts with asset allocation. There is a consensus that asset allocation plays an important role in determining portfolio performance (Arshanapalli, Coggin & Nelson, 2001). Active portfolio management implies the rebalancing of the existing portfolio by buying and selling assets. The aim of rebalancing is to improve the performance of the managed portfolio by adjusting it t...

Linkages among agricultural commodity futures prices: evidence from Tokyo

Malliaris and Urrutia (1996) use cointegration to analyse the prices of agricultural commodity futures contracts traded on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). They ® nd a long-run relationship among US grown corn, wheat, oat, soybean, soybean meal and soybean oil futures prices and assert that this empirical ® nding is consistent with two alternative hypotheses. The ® rst is that common economic...

Commodity Futures: A Japanese Perspective*

We study the basic properties of an equally weighted index of U.S. commodities futures from the perspective of a Japanese investor. We find that the returns on the U.S. equally-weighted commodity futures index maintain their basic properties documented in Gorton and Rousenhorst (2005), when translated into Yen. In particular, looking at returns on Japanese stocks and bonds, the commodity future...

Markowitz versus Michaud : Portfolio Optimization Strategies Reconsidered

Several attempts have been made to reduce the impact of estimation errors on the optimal portfolio composition. On the one hand, improved estimators of the necessary moments have been developed and on the other hand, heuristic methods have been generated to enhance the portfolio performance, for instance the "resampled efficiency" of Michaud (1998). We compare the out-ofsample performance of tr...