Continuing the previous problem, determine the portfolio that minimizes the chance that you will lose money during

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Continuing the previous problem, determine the portfolio that minimizes the chance that you will lose money during any month, subject to a lower bound constraint on your expected monthly return. (The lower bound will depend on your data. It must not be above the largest average return of your stocks. For example, if you require the mean portfolio return to be greater than 1% and all stocks average less than1%, the constraint can’t possibly be satisfied.)


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Visit http://biz.yahoo.com/r/. Under Research Tools, click on Historical Quotes, and then download the monthly returns on at least four stocks for the preceding 60 months. Use this data to determine the portfolio that maximizes the chance of beating the S&P 500 for these years.

Stocks
Stocks or shares are generally equity instruments that provide the largest source of raising funds in any public or private listed company's. The instruments are issued on a stock exchange from where a large number of general public who are willing...
Portfolio
A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Practical Management Science

ISBN: 1497

5th Edition

Authors: Wayne L. Winston, Christian Albright

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