PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION

UNDER NORMAL ASSUMPTIONS

A RE-FORMULATION

 

TRADITIONAL (Minimum Variance) Formulation

Here r0 is a target rate of return. This is varied parametrically from 0 up to the maximum of the ri’s.

MODERN (Maximum CE-Value) Formulation

Here t is the risk tolerance in the exponential utility function. It is varied parametrically from 0+ up until the allocation is made entirely to the category having the maximum ri.

NOTE: Both parametric variations yield the identically same Mean-Variance Efficient Frontier.

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