We study different implementations of the sparse portfolio construction and rebalancing method introduced by Brodie et al. This technique is based on the use of a l1-norm (sum of the absolute values) type penalization on the portfolio weights vector that regularizes the Markowitz portfolio...

In this paper we introduce a framework for constructing portfolios, addressing two of the major problems of classical mean-variance optimization in practice: Low diversification and sensitivity to information ambiguity. In order to address these issues, we incorporate a prior regarding investors...