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Authors: Oliver Strub and Norbert Trautmann

Affiliation: University of Bern, Switzerland

Keyword(s): 1/N Portfolio, Index Tracking, Portfolio Optimization, Iterated Greedy Heuristic.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Data Mining and Business Analytics ; Methodologies and Technologies ; Operational Research ; Optimization in Finance

Abstract: The 1/N portfolio represents a simple strategy to invest money in the stock market. Investors who follow this strategy invest an equal proportion of their investment budget in each stock from a given investment universe. Empirical results indicate that this strategy leads to competitive results in terms of risk and return compared to more sophisticated strategies. However, in practice, investing in all N stocks from a given investment universe can cause substantial transaction costs if N is large or if the market is illiquid. The optimization problem considered in this paper consists of optimally replicating the returns of the 1/N portfolio by selecting a small subset of the N stocks, and determining the respective weight for each selected stock. For the first time, we apply the concept of iterated greedy heuristics to this novel portfolio-optimization problem. For analyzing the performance of our heuristic approach, we also formulate the problem as a mixed-integer quadratic program (MIQP). Our computational results indicate that, within a limited CPU time, our heuristic approach outperforms the MIQP, in particular when the number of stocks N grows large. (More)

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Strub, O. and Trautmann, N. (2016). An Iterated Greedy Heuristic for the 1/N Portfolio Tracking Problem. In Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - ICORES; ISBN 978-989-758-171-7; ISSN 2184-4372, SciTePress, pages 424-431. DOI: 10.5220/0005827704240431

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booktitle={Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - ICORES},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - ICORES
TI - An Iterated Greedy Heuristic for the 1/N Portfolio Tracking Problem
SN - 978-989-758-171-7
IS - 2184-4372
AU - Strub, O.
AU - Trautmann, N.
PY - 2016
SP - 424
EP - 431
DO - 10.5220/0005827704240431
PB - SciTePress