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title: Subjectivity in Selection
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4787082/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4787082
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4787082
featured: 2024-04-10
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Subjectivity in Selection

The article delves into the principles of active portfolio selection, emphasizing the potential of subjectivity in improving portfolio performance and the efficiency of a unified active portfolio selection framework.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4787082
- Identifier: SSRN 4787082
- Released: 2022-09-16
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 44 (2024-04-10): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-04-10/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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