We propose a numerical optimization approach that can be used to solve portfolio selection problems including several assets and involving objective functions from cumulative prospect theory (CPT).

This paper investigates robust optimization methods for mean-variance portfolio selection problems under the estimation risk in mean returns. We show that with an ellipsoidal uncertainty set based on ...

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