Message-ID: <94e03e7b-d59f-c98b-90ba-925b82e332e0@braverock.com>
Date: 2018-03-08T03:00:59Z
From: Brian G. Peterson
Subject: Minimizing tracking error with restricted number of stocks
In-Reply-To: <1520476756408.85376@stevens.edu>
On 03/07/2018 08:39 PM, Alec Schmidt wrote:
> Thank you Brian. I searched PortfolioAnalytics.pdf for 'tracking' but didn't find one. Are there any implementation examples?
See Ross Bennett's tutorial from R/Finance 2017:
https://rossb34.github.io/PortfolioAnalyticsPresentation2017/#1
Tracking Error example starts on slide 29, though you should find the
rest of the tutorial useful.
- Brian
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> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Minimizing tracking error with restricted number of stocks
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> On 03/07/2018 07:55 PM, Alec Schmidt wrote:
>> Say I have a portfolio of 100 stocks and want to find a subset of 20 stocks with minimum tracking error in respect to the original portfolio. I wonder if a solver to this problem is implemented in some R-based library.
>
> PortfolioAnalytics can do this.
>