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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2018, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (2): 107-115.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2018.02.012

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Variable Mean and Variance of Asset Allocation Model in Chinese Market

WU Wen-sheng1, SHENG Shi-jie2, HAN Qi-heng2   

  1. 1. School of Economics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China;
    2. School of Finance, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2016-08-17 Revised:2017-06-23 Online:2018-02-20 Published:2018-04-20

Abstract: The allocation of asset which is reasonable and effective will increase investors' wealth, and promote their consumption. This will give impetus to the development of social economy. As is known to all, the asset structure is determined by the choice of asset allocation strategy. Moreover, the constraint of borrowing and policy restriction also have significant influence on asset allocation.
Based on previous research, 10 typical asset allocation strategies under the frame of Mean-Variance Model are chosen, including equity weight strategy, improved mean-variance strategies, improved Bayesian models, and improved CAPM strategies. In this paper, these asset allocation strategies using actual data of 5 categories of most common assets in Chinese capital market are studied, which contains stocks, debts, funds, gold and real assets ranging from 2000 to 2015. All performance of these 10 strategies with and without the constraint of borrowing is also studied and compared. The empirical results with the actual asset allocations of Chinese investors are compared, and the drawbacks and unreasonable respects of the real allocations are pointed out. The result provides some corresponding improvement suggestions.
The empirical results of this paper show that since the estimation error is the largest in the capital market, the performance of theoretical optimal asset allocation is not as good as the performance of equity weight strategy. In the meanwhile, the optimal asset allocation is dominant to the equity weight strategy in the case of financial market because the estimation error is the smallest. Furthermore, the constraint of borrowing will restrain the effect of asset allocation strategies, especially in the case that gold and real assets are all included in our investment scope. First, the current investment scope of Chinese investors is too small. Investment diversification can not only increase the effect of asset allocation, but also promote the development of the market. Second, the constraint of borrowing indeed restrain the abnormal fluctuation of the market in the short term, and it will affect the asset allocation and the development of the market negatively in the long term. So the government should relax restriction, introduce more investment products and increase market depth and elasticity to attract and guide more investors into the market.
In the last part of this paper, the performance of the strategies of mean-variance and equity weight is analyzed by using the data of 4 kinds of common assets and employing the method of Monte Carlo Simulation. The result makes a further support to our previous conclusion.

Key words: asset allocation, short sellingl, mean-variance, estimation error

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