The idea worth investigating
Arratia and Gzyl constrain estimated factor exposures and portfolio weights together. The appeal is a tracker that responds to information without turning every noisy observation into a trade.
The full analysis examines the study and the practical question behind it: Entropy penalties aim to restrain unstable weights. The question is what the tracker gives up—or gains—in the process.
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- Tracking error, turnover and net return together
- The separate stress-period comparison
- The holdings constraints behind the numbers
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