Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2017.1355254
The application of water cycle algorithm to portfolio selection
Mohammad Moradi
; Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Ali Sadollah
; Young Researchers and Elites Club, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Hoda Eskandar
; c Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Accounting, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Hadi Eskandar
; Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Abstract
Portfolio selection is one of the most vital financial problems in
literature. The studied problem is a nonlinear multi-objective problem
which has been solved by a variety of heuristic and metaheuristic
techniques. In this article, a metaheuristic optimiser, the multiobjective
water cycle algorithm (MOWCA), is represented to find
efficient frontiers associated with the standard mean-variance (MV)
portfolio optimisation model. The inspired concept of WCA
is based on the simulation of water cycle process in the nature.
Computational results are obtained for analyses of daily data for
the period January 2012 to December 2014, including S&P100 in
the US, Hang Seng in Hong Kong, FTSE100 in the UK, and DAX100
in Germany. The performance of the MOWCA for solving portfolio
optimisation problems has been evaluated in comparison with
other multi-objective optimisers including the NSGA-II and multiobjective
particle swarm optimisation (MOPSO). Four well-known
performance metrics are used to compare the reported optimisers.
Statistical optimisation results indicate that the applied MOWCA is an
efficient and practical optimiser compared with the other methods
for handling portfolio optimisation problems.
Keywords
Portfolio optimisation; mean-variance (M-V) optimisation; multiobjective optimisations; multi-objective water cycle algorithm (MOWCA); ondominated sorting Genetic Algorithm (GA)
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193183
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Publication date:
1.12.2017.
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