Correlations of financial asset returns play a central role in designing investment portfolios by using Markowitz's modern portfolio theory (MPT). Correlations are calculated from asset prices that happen at various trading time intervals. Therefore, trading frequency dictates correlation...

Portfolio risk, introduced by Markowitz in 1952, and defined as the standard deviation of the portfolio return, is an important metric in the Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). A popular method for portfolio selection is to manage the risk and return of a portfolio according to the...

This paper discusses portfolio construction for investing in N given assets, e.g. constituents of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or large cap stocks, which is based on partitioning the investment universe into clusters. The clusters are determined from the trailing correlation matrix...