Abstract
Index tracking, the most popular form of passive fund management, is a portfolio selection problem in which the return of one of the stock market indexes is reproduced by creating a tracking portfolio consisting of a subset of the stocks included in the index. Index tracking has been known as an NP-Hard problem, and sophisticated approaches have been proposed in the literature to solve this problem. This paper presents an easy-to-implement heuristic solution to this complex problem. The proposed approach was implemented to develop a tracking portfolio of 438 stocks listed in the Tehran Exchange Price Index. The numerical results indicate that the approach is able to identify quality solutions within reasonable model runtime.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 19-34 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Asian Academy of Management Journal |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 18 Oct 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Fund management
- Heuristic approach
- Index tracking
- Portfolio selection