Motivated by a long-standing notion of the challenge that is investing successfully in the Portuguese stock exchange, this thesis studies the implementation in Portugal of a new model that tackles one of portfolio optimization’s greatest obstacles: estimation errors. The Galton model, originally developed and tested in the United States market, uses a discovered pattern in out of sample errors, the difference between forecasted and realized values in out of sample tests, to correct historical inputs. These errors are mostly disregarded by other optimization efforts. With the corrected inputs, the model delivers a performance upgrade all around - more sensible weighting of the assets, improved return performance, returns conce...