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Published inJul 2020
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Jeffrey Ng
Jeffrey Ng
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Jeffrey Ng

Jeffrey Ng, CFA, works at Ping An OneConnect Bank (Hong Kong) Limited as Head of FinTech Solutions. His mandate is to advance the use of AI in banking and financial ecosystems. Prior to this, he headed up the data lab of BNP Paribas Asia Pacific, which constructed an AI and data analytics solution for business, and was the vice-chair of the French Chamber of Commerce's FinTech Committee in Hong Kong. In 2010, as one of the pioneers in applying client analytics to investment banking, he built the analytics team for the bank. He has undertaken AI projects in retail and commercial banks with PwC Consulting and GE Money. He graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in computing and management and holds an MBA in finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Subhash Shah
Subhash Shah
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Subhash Shah

Subhash Shah is an experienced solution architect. With 14 years of experience in software development, he works as an independent technical consultant now. He is an advocate of open source development and its utilization in solving critical business problems. His interests include Microservices architecture, Enterprise solutions, Machine Learning, Integrations and Databases. He is an admirer of quality code and test-driven development (TDD). His technical skills include translating business requirements into scalable architecture and designing sustainable solutions. He is a co-author of Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5, Hands-On AI for Banking and MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide. He has also been a technical reviewer for other books.
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Understanding the Markowitz mean-variance model

The objective of portfolio management is to minimize risk in order to ascertain the target return, given that, for the specific investor, we have the target return and risk tolerance captured from the IPS and historical returns. Typical portfolio optimization models used in the industry include the Markowitz mean-variance model and the Treynor-Black model.

An economist, named Harry Markowitz, introduced mean-variance analysis, which is also known as Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), in 1952. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics for his theory.

The mean-variance model is a framework for assembling asset portfolios so that a return can be maximized for a given risk level. It is an extension of investment diversification. Investment diversification is an idea that suggests investors should invest in different kinds of financial assets. Investment diversification is less risky in comparison to investing in only one...

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Jeffrey Ng

Jeffrey Ng, CFA, works at Ping An OneConnect Bank (Hong Kong) Limited as Head of FinTech Solutions. His mandate is to advance the use of AI in banking and financial ecosystems. Prior to this, he headed up the data lab of BNP Paribas Asia Pacific, which constructed an AI and data analytics solution for business, and was the vice-chair of the French Chamber of Commerce's FinTech Committee in Hong Kong. In 2010, as one of the pioneers in applying client analytics to investment banking, he built the analytics team for the bank. He has undertaken AI projects in retail and commercial banks with PwC Consulting and GE Money. He graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in computing and management and holds an MBA in finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Subhash Shah

Subhash Shah is an experienced solution architect. With 14 years of experience in software development, he works as an independent technical consultant now. He is an advocate of open source development and its utilization in solving critical business problems. His interests include Microservices architecture, Enterprise solutions, Machine Learning, Integrations and Databases. He is an admirer of quality code and test-driven development (TDD). His technical skills include translating business requirements into scalable architecture and designing sustainable solutions. He is a co-author of Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5, Hands-On AI for Banking and MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide. He has also been a technical reviewer for other books.
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