Basak, Gopal K.; Jagannathan, Ravi; Ma, Tongshu - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 6, pp. 990-1002
We develop a jackknife estimator for the conditional variance of a minimum tracking error variance portfolio constructed using estimated covariances. We empirically evaluate the performance of our estimator using an optimal portfolio of 200 stocks that has the lowest tracking error with respect...