Main points:
- Usually in portfolio optimization the utility is primary and constraints secondary
- We get a useful point of view if we put constraints primary and utility secondary
- random portfolios give us this point of view
- one way of generating random portfolios is outlined
- constraining fractions of portfolio variance per asset is a good alternative to weight constraints
Presented 2011 December at the Computational and Financial Econometrics conference.
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