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SUMMARY:Seminar Cancelled - Deep Reinforcement Learning for ESG financial portfolio management
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Eduardo C. Garrido Merchán\, Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences (ICADE)\, Comillas Universidad Pontifica \nAbstract: This paper investigates the application of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for Environment\, Social\, and Governance (ESG) financial portfolio management\, with a specific focus on the potential benefits of ESG score-based market regulation. We leveraged an Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C) agent and conducted our experiments using environments encoded within the OpenAI Gym\, adapted from the FinRL platform. The study includes a comparative analysis of DRL agent performance under standard Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) market conditions and a scenario where returns are regulated in line with company ESG scores. In the ESG-regulated market\, grants were proportionally allotted to portfolios based on their returns and ESG scores\, while taxes were assigned to portfolios below the mean ESG score of the index. The results intriguingly reveal that the DRL agent within the ESG-regulated market outperforms the standard DJIA market setup. Furthermore\, we considered the inclusion of ESG variables in the agent state space\, and compared this with scenarios where such data were excluded. This comparison adds to the understanding of the role of ESG factors in portfolio management decision-making. We also analyze the behaviour of the DRL agent in IBEX 35 and NASDAQ-100 indexes. Both the A2C and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithms were applied to these additional markets\, providing a broader perspective on the generalization of our findings. This work contributes to the evolving field of ESG investing\, suggesting that market regulation based on ESG scoring can potentially improve DRL-based portfolio management\, with significant implications for sustainable investing strategies.
URL:https://www.math.ttu.edu/mathematicalfinance/event/deep-reinforcement-learning-for-esg-financial-portfolio-management/
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CATEGORIES:Fall 2023,Seminars
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