Bayesian Optimization of ESG Financial Investments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01485v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:17:36 GMT
• Title: Bayesian Optimization of ESG Financial Investments
• Authors: Eduardo C. Garrido-Merch\'an, Gabriel Gonz\'alez Piris, Maria Coronado Vaca
• Abstract summary: ESG (Economic, Social and Governance) criteria have become more significant in finance. This paper combines mathematical modelling, with ESG and finance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Financial experts and analysts seek to predict the variability of financial markets. In particular, the correct prediction of this variability ensures investors successful investments. However, there has been a big trend in finance in the last years, which are the ESG criteria. Concretely, ESG (Economic, Social and Governance) criteria have become more significant in finance due to the growing importance of investments being socially responsible, and because of the financial impact companies suffer when not complying with them. Consequently, creating a stock portfolio should not only take into account its performance but compliance with ESG criteria. Hence, this paper combines mathematical modelling, with ESG and finance. In more detail, we use Bayesian optimization (BO), a sequential state-of-the-art design strategy to optimize black-boxes with unknown analytical and costly-to compute expressions, to maximize the performance of a stock portfolio under the presence of ESG criteria soft constraints incorporated to the objective function. In an illustrative experiment, we use the Sharpe ratio, that takes into consideration the portfolio returns and its variance, in other words, it balances the trade-off between maximizing returns and minimizing risks. In the present work, ESG criteria have been divided into fourteen independent categories used in a linear combination to estimate a firm total ESG score. Most importantly, our presented approach would scale to alternative black-box methods of estimating the performance and ESG compliance of the stock portfolio. In particular, this research has opened the door to many new research lines, as it has proved that a portfolio can be optimized using a BO that takes into consideration financial performance and the accomplishment of ESG criteria.

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