differential evolution algorithm

Empirical Analysis of Algorithms for Solving the Index Tracking Problem

Index tracking is a passive financial strategy that tries to replicate the performance of a given index or benchmark. The aim of investor is to find the weights of assets in her/his portfolio that minimize the tracking error, i.e. difference between the performance of the index and the portfolio. The paper considers the index tracking problem with cardinality constraint, i.e. the limit on the number of assets in the portfolio with non-zero weights.