Abstract
Three main approaches to the problem of portfolio selection may be discerned in the literature. The first of these is the mean-variance approach, pioneered by Markowitz [21], [22], and Tobin [30]. The second approach is that of chance-constrained programming, apparently initiated by Naslund and Whinston [26]. The third approach, Latane [19] and Breiman [6], [7], has its origin in capital growth considerations. The purpose of this paper is to contrast the mean-variance model, by far the most well-known and most developed model of portfolio selection, with the capital growth model, undoubtedly the least known. In so doing, we shall find the mean-variance model to be severely compromised by the capital growth model in several significant respects.
Keywords
Selection (genetic algorithm)PortfolioVariance (accounting)EconometricsEconomicsModern portfolio theoryStatisticsMathematicsFinancial economicsComputer scienceArtificial intelligence
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- 1971
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- 6
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- 1
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- 517-517
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Nils H. Hakansson
(1971).
Capital Growth and the Mean-Variance Approach to Portfolio Selection.
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
, 6
(1)
, 517-517.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2330126
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- 10.2307/2330126