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Multi-period Mean-Expectile Portfolio Optimization under Wasserstein Ambiguity: Reformulation, Degeneracy and the Role of the Ground Metric

Rupendra Yadav·Aparna Mehra
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Expectiles are the only law-invariant risk measures that are both coherent and elicitable. Unlike Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR), however, they do not admit a Rockafellar--Uryasev representation that admits tractable Wasserstein reformulations. We address this difficulty by developing an envelope theorem for worst-case expectiles that characterizes the worst-case expectile over a Wasserstein ambiguity set as the unique root of a worst-case expectation with a two-piece affine integrand. This representation permits direct application of standard Wasserstein duality. Using this result, we reformulate a multi-period tri-level mean--expectile portfolio problem as four parametric linear programs with constraints. We establish four structural properties of the proposed model: an endogenously damped price of robustness, a decision-dependent critical radius beyond which the expectile tail component becomes inactive, exact recovery of the nominal model at zero ambiguity, and a characterization of how the Wasserstein ground metric determines whether the limiting portfolio becomes more concentrated or more diversified. Numerical experiments on 90 FTSE constituents over 3,341 out-of-sample trading days show that the expectile model outperforms a CVaR model matched on ambiguity set, radius, ground metric, and trade-off weight in all nine parameter cells---significantly so whenever the radius is non-trivial. The experiments further confirm the predicted degeneracy under the ground metric.

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Rupendra Yadav, Aparna Mehra. 2026-10-08. Multi-period Mean-Expectile Portfolio Optimization under Wasserstein Ambiguity: Reformulation, Degeneracy and the Role of the Ground Metric. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11917

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