Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 University of Guilan

2 Qatar University

Abstract

The use of variance as a risk measure is limited by its non-coherent

nature. On the other hand, standard deviation has been demonstrated as a

coherent and effective measure of market volatility. This paper suggests the

use of standard deviation in portfolio optimization problems with cardinality

constraints and short selling, specifically in the mean-conditional value-at risk

framework. It is shown that, subject to certain conditions, this approach leads

to lower standard deviation. Empirical results obtained from experiments on

the SP index data set from 2016-2021 using various numbers of stocks and

confidence levels indicate that the proposed model outperforms existing models

in terms of Sharpe ratios.

Keywords

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