PortfolioTheory&Financial
Analyses
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Portfolio Theory & Financial Analyses
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Portfolio Theory & Financial Analyses
1st edition
© 2010 Robert Alan Hill & bookboon.com
ISBN 978-87-7681-605-6
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Portfolio Theory & Financial Analyses
Contents
Contents
1
About the Author
8
Part I: An Introduction
9
An Overview
10
Introduction
10
1.1
he Development of Finance
10
1.2
Eicient Capital Markets
12
1.3
he Role of Mean-Variance Eiciency
14
1.4
he Background to Modern Portfolio heory
17
1.5
Summary and Conclusions
18
1.6
Selected References
20
Part II: he Portfolio Decision
21
Risk and Portfolio Analysis
22
Introduction
22
Mean-Variance Analyses: Markowitz Eiciency
23
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Portfolio Theory & Financial Analyses
Contents
2.2
he Combined Risk of Two Investments
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2.3
he Correlation between Two Investments
30
2.4
Summary and Conclusions
33
2.5
Selected References
33
3
he Optimum Portfolio
34
Introduction
34
3.1
he Mathematics of Portfolio Risk
34
3.2
Risk Minimisation and the Two-Asset Portfolio
38
3.3
he Minimum Variance of a Two-Asset Portfolio
40
3.4
he Multi-Asset Portfolio
42
3.5
he Optimum Portfolio
45
3.6
Summary and Conclusions
48
3.7
Selected References
51
4
he Market Portfolio
52
Introduction
52
4.1
he Market Portfolio and Tobin’s heorem
53
4.2
he CML and Quantitative Analyses
57
4.3
Systematic and Unsystematic Risk
60
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