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17 June 2022 Financial Analysts Journal Volume 78, Issue 3

Evolutionary Finance for Multi-Asset Investors

  1. Thorsten Hens
  2. Michael Schnetzer
Traditional mean–variance optimization focuses on the optimal allocation, but evolutionary finance looks for the optimal strategy. This paper develops a multi-asset evolutionary finance model and finds that yield-based strategies are superior.
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Overview

Standard strategic asset allocation procedures usually neglect market interaction. However, returns are not generated in a vacuum but the result of the market’s price discovery mechanism. Evolutionary finance accounts for this and endogenizes asset prices.This paper develops a multi-asset evolutionary finance model. Requiring little more than dividend and interest rate data, it provides a valuable guide to this class of models. While traditional mean/variance optimization is concerned with finding the optimal allocation, evolutionary finance’s focus is on finding the optimal strategy. This paper shows that yield-based strategies outperform competing alternatives and are evolutionarily advantageous for multi-asset investors.

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