1. What is the size of HMC’s portfolio? How is the portfolio managed and what are the management costs? What is the role of the Policy Portfolio? The size of HMC’s portfolio 2. Why is HMC focusing on real returns? 3. HMC’s estimates of expected returns‚ standard deviations and correlations di_er from the twenty-year historical estimates. Why might this be? Comment on the di_er- ence between the two sets of estimates‚ focusing on expected returns and standard deviations. 4. Let’s assume
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Copyright c 2005 by Karl Sigman 1 Portfolio mean and variance Here we study the performance of a one-period investment X0 > 0 (dollars) shared among several different assets. Our criterion for measuring performance will be the mean and variance of its rate of return; the variance being viewed as measuring the risk involved. Among other things we will see that the variance of an investment can be reduced simply by diversifying‚ that is‚ by sharing the X0 among more than one asset‚ and this
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“Foundations of Portfolio Theory” by. H.M. Markowitz (1991) Foundations of Portfolio Theory by H.M. Markowitz is based on a two part lesson of microeconomics of capital markets. Part one being that taught by Markowitz‚ which is solely geared toward portfolio theory and how an optimizing investor would behave‚ whereas part two focuses on the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) which is the work done by Sharpe and Lintner. In this article Markowitz speaks strictly on portfolio theory. He states that there
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American Finance Association Portfolio Selection Author(s): Harry Markowitz Source: The Journal of Finance‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 1 (Mar.‚ 1952)‚ pp. 77-91 Published by: Blackwell Publishing for the American Finance Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2975974 . Accessed: 23/06/2011 20:52 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use
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Lecturer: Mr. Terrol Cummins Course: FINA 2004 Portfolio Management KBIM Investment Inc. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- KBIM PERFORMANCE REPORT ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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available to the investor given the features of the broad asset markets in which they can invest? – The investment opportunity set 2. “Personal” part of asset allocation – How should an individual investor choose the best risk-return combination from the set of feasible combinations? 3. Equilibrium – When all investors optimize their portfolios‚ how are asset returns determined in equilibrium? Agenda • • • • • Risk‚ risk aversion‚ and utility Portfolio risk and return Diversification Allocation
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intention is gaining high return while controlling the risk level of the investment. Though the high return level implied the high tolerance for risk of investors‚ our objective is to maximize the return while minimizing the overall risk level of the investment to accomplish the maximized wealth. The major reason behind high level tolerance for risk is the return expected through the investment is high. Always we tried to maintain better relationship between the expected return and cost of investment
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Mini Case 1: Portfolio Construction Exercise Download the spreadsheet minicase1_data.xls from the class website. In it you will find the time series of monthly returns for Microsoft (MSFT)‚ General Motors (GM) from January 1990 to December 2002. Answer the following questions based on the data in the spreadsheet. Note that you do not need to turn in your entire spreadsheet; Simply summarize your answers (show all formulae where appropriate) on a few sheets of paper. Please highlight your
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Alex Sharpe’s Portfolio Student Assignment 1. Returns and Risk Estimate and compare the returns and variability (i.e. annual standard deviation over the past five years) of Reynolds and Hasbro with that of the S&P 500 Index. Which stock appears to be riskiest? Reynolds appears to be the riskiest stock based on the returns and variability alone currently holding the highest average return out of two at 1.87%. With their higher return rate over the three they also hold the highest standard
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well as maintain and increase the amount originally invested‚ I chose to diversify my portfolios by combining stocks‚ bonds and cash savings in difference proportions. I choose home market (UK market) to invest with the goal of maintaining a balance of income and capital growth. Investment in the UK is not bring high profit and fast but its safe and stable because less risk. Investing aboard will bring high return but the risk high also. Invest international market we may consider some types of basic
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