Minimum variance investing under sustainability constraints

Marcel Marohn and Benjamin R. Auer

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 256, issue C

Abstract: Motivated by the recent rehabilitation of traditional portfolio theory and the growing interest of investors in integrating corporate sustainability into their investment decisions, this note derives the explicit weight formula of the global minimum variance portfolio in a mean–variance portfolio optimization setup with sustainability constraints. Additionally, it identifies the critical boundary a sustainability restriction must satisfy in order to affect portfolio weights and provides an analytic expression for the important two-asset optimization case. Finally, a supplementary empirical application illustrates the consequences of effective restrictions on investment performance and portfolio composition.

Keywords: Multi-objective optimization; Minimum variance portfolio; Sustainability constraints; Efficient frontiers; Short selling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112561

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