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title: Asset Allocation with Clustered EF Coefficients
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4609682/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4609682
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4609682
featured: 2023-10-25
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Asset Allocation with Clustered EF Coefficients

A new asset allocation model using a Markov process has been proposed to characterize market states and optimize portfolios.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4609682
- Identifier: SSRN 4609682
- Released: 2023-05-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 23 (2023-10-25): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-10-25/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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