Downside Loss Aversion and Portfolio Management
研究下行损失厌恶偏好下的投资组合管理，比较均值方差与均值下半矩最优组合在非正态收益分布下的差异，发现当收益左尾较大时两者显著不同，这解释了业界对股票和债券组合使用不同理论的现象。
Downside loss-averse preferences have seen a resurgence in the portfolio management literature. This is due to the increasing use of derivatives in managing equity portfolios and the increased use of quantitative techniques for bond portfolio management. We employ the lower partial moment as a risk measure for downside loss aversion and compare mean-variance (M-V) and mean-lower partial moment (M-LPM) optimal portfolios under nonnormal asset return distributions. When asset returns are nearly normally distributed, there is little difference between the optimal M-V and M-LPM portfolios. When asset returns are nonnormal with large left tails, we document significant differences in M-V and M-LPM optimal portfolios. This observation is consistent with industry usage of M-V theory for equity portfolios but not for fixed-income portfolios.