User:Milawinter/Evolutionary Finance

Evolutionary Finance is a branch of research steming from the line of financial market theories, namely expected utility theory (founded by Daniel Bernoulli in 1738) and modern portfolio theory (founded by Harry Markowitz in the 1950s), and using insights from the field of evolutionary economics. It looks at the markets from an evolutionary stand point, asking questions such as: What is the fittest investment strategy? What is the fittest hot topic (ex. .coms, hightech, BP oil spill, financial crisis) that influences the market?

The term was coined by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens in X. He is the director of the banking institute at the University of Zurich.

Known academics in the field of evolutionary economics include Kurt Dopfer.