We assess the ability of minimum-variance portfolio allocation strategies accounting for time-varying correlation between assets to provide performance benefits relative to an equally-weighted portfolio. Prior to transaction costs correlation-based strategies emphatically outperform the...

Challenges to the empirical implementation of portfolio optimization abound, leading to a recent focus upon the naïve equally weighted portfolio as asset allocation benchmark. In this paper, we extend the performance analysis of the naïve allocation approach to encompass data both within and...