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Investors consider mutual funds as an interesting investment opportunity. This is the result of the impressive growth shown by these financial products in recent times. In this paper we propose a mixed integer linear programming model dealing with the portfolio selection problem on mutual funds in a single period investment strategy. We propose some heuristics and compare their performance. According to the results obtained on real instances, heuristics have proved to be effective and efficient.
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Chiodi, L., Mansini, R. & Speranza, M.G. Semi-Absolute Deviation Rule for Mutual Funds Portfolio Selection. Annals of Operations Research 124, 245–265 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ANOR.0000004772.15447.5a
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