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The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2014, Article ID 510531, 13 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/510531
Research Article

Long-Run Savings and Investment Strategy Optimization

Russell Gerrard,1 Montserrat Guillén,2 Jens Perch Nielsen,1 and Ana M. Pérez-Marín2

1Cass Business School, City University London, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, UK
2Department of Econometrics, Riskcenter-IREA, University of Barcelona, Avenue Diagonal 690, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

Received 10 November 2013; Accepted 8 January 2014; Published 23 February 2014

Academic Editors: J. M. Calvin, C.-T. Chang, and M. Pal

Copyright © 2014 Russell Gerrard et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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