The most common equity mandate in the financial industry is to try to outperform an externally given benchmark with known weights. The standard quantitative approach to do this is to optimize the portfolio over short time horizons consecutively, using one-period models. However, it is not clear...

As a consequence of the real estate market crash after 2008, large investors invested a significant amount of wealth into single-family houses to construct a portfolio of rental dwellings, whose income is securitized in the capital. In some local housing markets, these investors own remarkable...

We present a new approach for continuous-time portfolio strategies that relies on the principle of value preservation. This principle was developed by Hellwig (1987) for general economic decision and pricing models. The key idea is that an investor should try to consume only so much of his...

We present a new approach for continuous-time portfolio strategies that relies on the principle of value preservation. This principle was developed by Hellwig (1987) for general economic decision and pricing models. The key idea is that an investor should try to consume only so much of his...