May 2016
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
10h 17m
English
Christine De Mol
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Modern portfolio theory originated from the work of Markowitz (1952), who insisted on the fact that returns should be balanced with risk and established the theoretical basis for portfolio optimization according to this principle. The portfolios are to be composed from a universe of
securities with returns at time
given by
,
, and assumed to be stationary. We denote by
the
vector of the expected returns of the different assets, and by
the covariance matrix of the returns (
is the transpose of ).
A portfolio is characterized by a vector of weights , where is the amount ...
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