Portfolio Construction Using Principle Component Analysis

"Principal Components Analysis (PCA) is an important mathematical technique widely used in the world of quantitative finance. The ultimate goal of this paper is to construct a portfolio with hedging positions, which is able to outperform the SPY benchmark in terms of the Sharpe ratio. Mathemati...

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Main Author: Chen, Huanting
Other Authors: Marcel Y. Blais, Advisor
Format: Others
Published: Digital WPI 2014
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/927
https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1926&context=etd-theses