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Introduction to Portfolio Analysis in R

Apply your finance and R skills to backtest, analyze, and optimize financial portfolios.

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A golden rule in investing is to always test the portfolio strategy on historical data, and, once you are trading the strategy, to constantly monitor its performance. In this course, you will learn this by critically analyzing portfolio returns using the package PerformanceAnalytics. The course also shows how to estimate the portfolio weights that optimally balance risk and return. This is a data-driven course that combines portfolio theory with the practice in R, illustrated on real-life examples of equity portfolios and asset allocation problems. If you'd like to continue exploring the data after you've finished this course, the data used in the first three chapters can be obtained using the tseries-package.
  1. 1

    The Building Blocks

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    Asset returns and portfolio weights; those are the building blocks of a portfolio return. This chapter is about computing those portfolio weights and returns in R.

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    Welcome to the course
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    Getting a grasp of the basics
    50 xp
    Get a feel for the data
    100 xp
    The portfolio weights
    50 xp
    Calculating portfolio weights when component values are given
    100 xp
    The weights of an equally weighted portfolio
    50 xp
    The weights of a market capitalization-weighted portfolio
    100 xp
    The portfolio return
    50 xp
    Calculation of portfolio returns
    100 xp
    From simple to gross and multi-period returns
    50 xp
    The asymmetric impact of gains and losses
    50 xp
    PerformanceAnalytics
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    Buy-and-hold versus (daily) rebalancing
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    The time series of asset returns
    100 xp
    The time series of portfolio returns
    100 xp
    The time series of weights
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    Analyzing Performance

    The history of portfolio returns reveals valuable information about how much the investor can expect to gain or lose. This chapter introduces the R functionality to analyze the investment performance based on a statistical analysis of the portfolio returns. It includes graphical analysis and the calculation of performance statistics expressing average return, risk, and risk-adjusted return over rolling estimation samples.

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