Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) is widely used in portfolio optimization as a measure of risk. CVaR is clearly dependent on the underlying probability distribution of the portfolio. We show how copulas can be introduced to any problem that involves distributions and how they can provide...

While dynamic decision making has traditionally been represented as scenario trees, these may become severely intractable and difficult to compute with an increasing number of time periods. We present an alternative tractable approach to multiperiod international portfolio optimization based on...