{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/robust-portfolio-optimization-using-gopals","title":"Robust Portfolio Optimization using GOPALS: Geospatial Optimization and Portfolio Allocation using Landscape Segmentation","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2024-12-14","proceeding":"SSRN 2024 12","authors":["Jatin Patni","Ritabrata Bhattacharyya"],"abstract":"Portfolio Optimization is an important area of research in Financial Investments. The traditional mean-variance framework for portfolio optimization is very sensitive to the estimation errors in the expectations of returns and covariances, and leads to suboptimal port folios. Even after using techniques such as shrinkage methods, robust optimization, and resampling methods, we are unable to address these limitations comprehensively. \r\n\r\nThis study introduces GOPALS: Geospatial Optimization and Portfolio Allocation using Landscape Segmentation, a simulation-based portfolio optimization framework designed to overcome these limitations and improve the robustness of the portfolio optimization process. \r\nGOPALS methodology relies on simulating market scenarios and identifying ”stable regions” in the high-dimensional portfolio weight space (i.e. regions where portfolio allocations consistently perform favorably across varying market conditions) using clustering methods. By restricting the choice of portfolio allocations from such stable regions, the portfolio performance can be shown to be consistently favorable and robust to estimation errors.\r\nGOPALS is applied to a handpicked universe of Indian Equity Mutual Funds, with practical constraints-such as long-only positions and concentration limits-in order to reflect real-world constraints of investing. The robustness of GOPALS is shown via backtests per formed over multiple historical regimes.\r\nGOPALS offers a resilient approach to portfolio construction, hence it has considerable promise, not only in academic research, but also in the real world of financial investments. It offers investors and portfolio managers a new tool for navigating uncertain markets across different asset classes and global investment universes.","url_abs":"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5057384","url_pdf":"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/5057384.pdf?abstractid=5057384&mirid=1","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"robust-portfolio-optimization-using-gopals","repo_url":"https://github.com/JatinPatni/GOPALS","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"portfolio-optimization","task_name":"Portfolio Optimization"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}