Article ID: | iaor20115950 |
Volume: | 213 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 538 |
End Page Number: | 550 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Beasley J E, Woodside-Oriakhi M, Lucas C |
Keywords: | heuristics |
This paper examines the application of genetic algorithm, tabu search and simulated annealing metaheuristic approaches to finding the cardinality constrained efficient frontier that arises in financial portfolio optimisation. We consider the mean–variance model of Markowitz as extended to include the discrete restrictions of buy‐in thresholds and cardinality constraints. Computational results are reported for publicly available data sets drawn from seven major market indices involving up to 1318 assets. Our results are compared with previous results given in the literature illustrating the effectiveness of the proposed metaheuristics in terms of solution quality and computation time.