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CHAPTER 7
Optimal Risky Portfolios
7-2
The Investment Decision
Top-down process with 3 steps:
1. Capital allocation between the risky portfolio
and risk-free asset
2. Asset allocation across broad asset classes
3. Security selection of individual assets within
each asset class

7-3
Diversification and Portfolio Risk
Market risk
Systematic or nondiversifiable

Firm-specific risk
Diversifiable or nonsystematic
7-4
Figure 7.1 Portfolio Risk as a Function of the
Number of Stocks in the Portfolio
7-5
Figure 7.2 Portfolio Diversification
7-6
Covariance and Correlation
Portfolio risk depends on the
correlation between the returns of the
assets in the portfolio

Covariance and the correlation
coefficient provide a measure of the
way returns of two assets vary
7-7

Two-Security Portfolio: Return

Portfolio Return
Bond Weight
Bond Return
Equity Weight
Equity Return

p
D E D E
P
D
D
E
E
r
r
w
r
w
r
w w r r
= +
=
=
=
=
=
( ) ( ) ( )
p D D E E
E r w E r w E r = +
7-8
= Variance of Security D
= Variance of Security E
= Covariance of returns for
Security D and Security E
Two-Security Portfolio: Risk
( )
E D E D E E D D
r r Cov w w w w , 2
2 2 2 2 2
p
+ + = o o o
2
E
o
2
D
o
( )
E D
r r Cov ,
7-9
Two-Security Portfolio: Risk

Another way to express variance of the
portfolio:

2
( , ) ( , ) 2 ( , )
P D D D D E E E E D E D E
w w Cov r r w w Cov r r w w Cov r r o = + +
7-10
D,E
= Correlation coefficient of
returns

Cov(r
D,
r
E
) =
DE
o
D
o
E
o
D
= Standard deviation of
returns for Security D

o
E
= Standard deviation of
returns for Security E
Covariance
7-11
Range of values for
1,2
+ 1.0 > > -1.0
If = 1.0, the securities are perfectly
positively correlated
If = - 1.0, the securities are perfectly
negatively correlated
Correlation Coefficients: Possible Values
7-12
Correlation Coefficients
When
DE
= 1, there is no diversification

When
DE
= -1, a perfect hedge is possible

D D E E P
w w o o o + =
D
E
D
D
E
w w =
+
= 1
o o
o
7-13
Table 7.2 Computation of Portfolio
Variance From the Covariance Matrix
7-14
Three-Asset Portfolio
1 1 2 2 3 3
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
p
E r w E r w E r w E r = + +
2
3
2
3
2
2
2
2
2
1
2
1
2
o o o o w w w
p
+ + =
3 , 2 3 2 3 , 1 3 1 2 , 1 2 1
2 2 2 o o o w w w w w w + + +
7-15
Figure 7.3 Portfolio Expected Return as a
Function of Investment Proportions
7-16
Figure 7.4 Portfolio Standard Deviation as
a Function of Investment Proportions
7-17
The Minimum Variance Portfolio
The minimum variance
portfolio is the portfolio
composed of the risky
assets that has the
smallest standard
deviation, the portfolio
with least risk.

When correlation is
less than +1, the
portfolio standard
deviation may be
smaller than that of
either of the individual
component assets.

When correlation is -
1, the standard
deviation of the
minimum variance
portfolio is zero.

7-18
Figure 7.5 Portfolio Expected Return as a
Function of Standard Deviation
7-19
The amount of possible risk reduction
through diversification depends on the
correlation.
The risk reduction potential increases as
the correlation approaches -1.
If = +1.0, no risk reduction is possible.
If = 0,
P
may be less than the standard
deviation of either component asset.
If = -1.0, a riskless hedge is possible.
Correlation Effects
7-20
Figure 7.6 The Opportunity Set of the Debt and Equity
Funds and Two Feasible CALs
7-21
The Sharpe Ratio
Maximize the slope of the CAL for any
possible portfolio, P.
The objective function is the slope:

The slope is also the Sharpe ratio.
( )
P f
P
P
E r r
S
o
=
7-22
Figure 7.7 The Opportunity Set of the Debt and Equity Funds
with the Optimal CAL and the Optimal Risky Portfolio
7-23
Figure 7.8 Determination of the Optimal
Overall Portfolio
7-24
Figure 7.9 The Proportions of the Optimal
Overall Portfolio
7-25
Markowitz Portfolio Selection Model
Security Selection
The first step is to determine the risk-
return opportunities available.
All portfolios that lie on the minimum-
variance frontier from the global
minimum-variance portfolio and upward
provide the best risk-return
combinations
7-26
Figure 7.10 The Minimum-Variance
Frontier of Risky Assets
7-27

We now search for the CAL with the
highest reward-to-variability ratio
7-28
Figure 7.11 The Efficient Frontier of Risky
Assets with the Optimal CAL
7-29
Everyone invests in P, regardless of their
degree of risk aversion.

More risk averse investors put more in the
risk-free asset.

Less risk averse investors put more in P.
7-30
Capital Allocation and the
Separation Property
The separation property tells us that the
portfolio choice problem may be
separated into two independent tasks
Determination of the optimal risky
portfolio is purely technical.
Allocation of the complete portfolio to T-
bills versus the risky portfolio depends
on personal preference.
7-31
Figure 7.13 Capital Allocation Lines with
Various Portfolios from the Efficient Set
7-32
The Power of Diversification
Remember:

If we define the average variance and average
covariance of the securities as:

2
1 1
( , )
n n
P i j i j
i j
w w Cov r r o
= =
=

2
2
1
1 1
1
1
( , )
( 1)
n
i
i
n n
i j
j i
j i
n
Cov Cov r r
n n
o o
=
= =
=
=
=

7-33
The Power of Diversification
We can then express portfolio variance as:

2 2
1 1
P
n
Cov
n n
o o
= +
7-34
Table 7.4 Risk Reduction of Equally Weighted
Portfolios in Correlated and Uncorrelated Universes
7-35
Optimal Portfolios and Nonnormal
Returns
Fat-tailed distributions can result in extreme
values of VaR and ES and encourage smaller
allocations to the risky portfolio.

If other portfolios provide sufficiently better VaR
and ES values than the mean-variance efficient
portfolio, we may prefer these when faced with
fat-tailed distributions.
7-36
Risk Pooling and the Insurance Principle
Risk pooling: merging uncorrelated, risky
projects as a means to reduce risk.
increases the scale of the risky investment by
adding additional uncorrelated assets.
The insurance principle: risk increases less than
proportionally to the number of policies insured
when the policies are uncorrelated
Sharpe ratio increases

7-37
Risk Sharing
As risky assets are added to the portfolio, a
portion of the pool is sold to maintain a risky
portfolio of fixed size.
Risk sharing combined with risk pooling is the
key to the insurance industry.
True diversification means spreading a portfolio
of fixed size across many assets, not merely
adding more risky bets to an ever-growing risky
portfolio.

7-38
Investment for the Long Run
Long Term Strategy
Invest in the risky
portfolio for 2 years.

Long-term strategy is
riskier.
Risk can be reduced
by selling some of the
risky assets in year 2.
Time diversification
is not true
diversification.
Short Term Strategy
Invest in the risky
portfolio for 1 year and
in the risk-free asset for
the second year.

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