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A Survey of Portfolio Optimization with Emphasis on Investments Made by Housewives in Popular Portfolios

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The paper aims at an investor who is pre-dominantly risk-averse and is not adoptive to broad allocation of investment due to lack of knowledge and adventurism. It aims at utilizing mathematical tools of portfolio optimization to simple and popular investments of housewives. After a two-stage process involving observations and analysis of the returns on investments made by housewives, an optimal choice of portfolio is suggested for them.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Kalindi College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India

    Sunita Sharma

  2. Department of Applied Sciences, The NorthCap University, Gurugram, Haryana, India

    Renu Tuli

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  1. Amity Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Amity University, Noida, India

    P. K. Kapur

  2. Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Ompal Singh

  3. Amity University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Sunil Kumar Khatri

  4. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haugesund, Norway

    Ajit Kumar Verma

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Sharma, S., Tuli, R. (2020). A Survey of Portfolio Optimization with Emphasis on Investments Made by Housewives in Popular Portfolios. In: Kapur, P.K., Singh, O., Khatri, S.K., Verma, A.K. (eds) Strategic System Assurance and Business Analytics. Asset Analytics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3647-2_24

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