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Stochastic portfolio theory (SPT) is a mathematical theory for analyzing stock market structure and portfolio behavior introduced by E. Robert Fernholz in 2002. It is descriptive as opposed to normative, and is consistent with the observed behavior of actual markets. Normative assumptions, which serve as a basis for earlier theories like modern portfolio theory (MPT) and the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), are absent from SPT. SPT uses continuous-time random processes (in particular, continuous semi-martingales) to represent the prices of individual securities. Processes with discontinuities, such as jumps, have also been incorporated into the theory. == Stocks, portfolios and markets == SPT considers stocks and stock markets, but its methods can be applied to other classes of assets as well. A stock is represented by its price process, usually in the logarithmic representation. In the case the market is a collection of stock-price processes for each defined by a continuous semimartingale : where is an -dimensional Brownian motion (Wiener) process with , and the processes and are progressively measurable with respect to the Brownian filtration . In this representation is called the (compound) growth rate of and the covariance between and is It is frequently assumed that, for all the process is positive, locally square-integrable, and does not grow too rapidly as The logarithmic representation is equivalent to the classical arithmetic representation which uses the rate of return however the growth rate can be a meaningful indicator of long-term performance of a financial asset, whereas the rate of return has an upward bias. The relation between the rate of return and the growth rate is : The usual convention in SPT is to assume that each stock has a single share outstanding, so represents the total capitalization of the -th stock at time and is the total capitalization of the market. Dividends can be included in this representation, but are omitted here for simplicity. An investment strategy is a vector of bounded, progressively measurable processes; the quantity represents the proportion of total wealth invested in the -th stock at time , and is the proportion hoarded (invested in a money market with zero interest rate). Negative weights correspond to short positions. The cash strategy keeps all wealth in the money market. A strategy is called portfolio, if it is fully invested in the stock market, that is holds, at all times. The value process of a strategy is always positive and satisfies : where the process is called the excess growth rate process and is given by : This expression is non-negative for a portfolio with non-negative weights and has been used in quadratic optimization of stock portfolios, a special case of which is optimization with respect to the logarithmic utility function. The market weight processes, : where define the market portfolio . With the initial condition the associated value process will satisfy for all A number of conditions can be imposed on a market, sometimes to model actual markets and sometimes to emphasize certain types of hypothetical market behavior. Some commonly invoked conditions are: # A market is nondegenerate if the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix are bounded away from zero. It has bounded variance if the eigenvalues are bounded. # A market is coherent if for all # A market is diverse on if there exists such that for # A market is weakly diverse on if there exists such that Diversity and weak diversity are rather weak conditions, and markets are generally far more diverse than would be tested by these extremes. A measure of market diversity is market entropy, defined by : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stochastic portfolio theory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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