Since Markowitz (1952) formulated the portfolio selection problem, many researchers have developed models aggregating simultaneously several conflicting attributes such as: the return on investment, risk and liquidity. The portfolio manager generally seeks the best combination of stocks/assets that meets his/ her investment objectives. The Goal Programming (GP) model is widely applied to financ...

Traditionally, the pricing of terrorism risk has been discovered from the balance of supply and demand in the insurance market, rather than evaluated from actuarial principles. Risk selection through the use of site security surveys has helped reduce the number of inferior risks, and systematic portfolio risk aggregation has limited the Probable Maximum Loss from any attack scenario. With such ...

In many practical investment situations the amount of available memory on stock data is extremely huge. Thus many investors are attracted to base their decisions on the information "currently available in their minds" (see [1, 2]). In the present paper various risk measurement models having application in the investment management are discussed. First we explain the concept of mean variance eff...

Resource limitation in zero time may cause to some profitable projects not to be selected in project selection problem, thus simultaneous project portfolio selection and scheduling problem has received significant attention. In this study, budget, investment costs and earnings are considered to be stochastic. The objectives are maximizing net present values of selected projects and minimizing v...