Markowitz Without a Risk-Free Asset

Pierre Brugière
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Pierre Brugière: University Paris Dauphine-PSL

Chapter Chapter 4 in Quantitative Portfolio Management, 2020, pp 51-59 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we solve the Markowitz problem Markowitz problem of finding the investment portfolios which, for a given level of expected return, present the minimum risk. The assumption is made that the returns of the assets (and consequently of the portfolios) follow a Gaussian distribution, and the risk is defined as the standard deviation of the returns. Except in the case where all the risky assets have the same returns, the solution portfolios ℱ $$\mathcal {F}$$ of this mean-variance optimisation problem define a hyperbola when representing in a plane the set ℱ ( σ , m ) $$\mathcal {F}(\sigma ,m)$$ of their standard deviations and expected returns. This hyperbola also determines the limit of all the investment portfolios that can be built. Its upper side ℱ + ( σ , m ) $$\mathcal {F}^+(\sigma ,m)$$ corresponds to the efficient portfolios and is called the efficient frontier Efficient frontier , while its lower side ℱ − ( σ , m ) $$\mathcal {F}^-(\sigma ,m)$$ is called the inefficient frontier Frontier inefficient . The two fund theorem Two fund theorem demonstrated here proves that, when taking any pair of distinct portfolios from ℱ $$\mathcal {F}$$ , any other portfolio from ℱ $$\mathcal {F}$$ can be constructed through an allocation between these two portfolios. As a consequence, when two optimal portfolios are found, the subsequent problem of finding other optimal portfolios is just a problem of allocation between these two funds.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37740-3_4

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