Multi-Agent Based Ethical Asset Management

The increasing number of ethical investment funds shows how the need of ethics in asset management is growing up. In the same time, in some markets, autonomous agents are managing a larger number of financial transactions than human do. If many philosophers and economists discuss the fairness of different approaches for responsible investment, there is no strong proposition today about the implementation of autonomous agents able to take into account ethical notions in their financial decisions. This article proposes an approach to represent morals and ethics in a BDI architecture and illustrates its use in the context of ethical asset management. An analysis of a first experimentation on a simulated market is given.