Globally Evolutionarily Stable Portfolio Rules

FINRISK Working Paper No. 238

43 Pages Posted: 20 Sep 2005 Last revised: 23 Nov 2007

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Igor V. Evstigneev

University of Manchester - Economics, School of Social Sciences

Thorsten Hens

University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance; Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH); Swiss Finance Institute

Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

The University of Manchester - Department of Economics

Date Written: September 25, 2007

Abstract

The paper examines a dynamic model of a financial market with endogenous asset prices determined by short run equilibrium of supply and demand. Assets pay dividends that are partially consumed and partially reinvested. The traders use fixed-mix investment strategies (portfolio rules), distributing their wealth between assets in fixed proportions. Our main goal is to identify globally evolutionarily stable strategies, allowing an investor to survive, i.e. to accumulate in the long run a positive share of market wealth, regardless of the initial state of the market. It is shown that there is a unique portfolio rule with this property - an analogue of the famous Kelly (1956) rule of betting one's beliefs. A game theoretic interpretation of this result is given.

Keywords: Evolutionary Finance, Wealth Dynamics, Survival and Extinction of Portfolio Rules, Evolutionary Stability, Kelly Rule

JEL Classification: G11, C61, C62

Suggested Citation

Evstigneev, Igor V. and Hens, Thorsten and Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner, Globally Evolutionarily Stable Portfolio Rules (September 25, 2007). FINRISK Working Paper No. 238, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=804346 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.804346

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