Develop a reasonable (non-pathological) risk averse preference curve for the monetary amounts between - $ 20 million and $ 45 million. Determine the preferred strategy for the decision maker that you've modeled with your curve. Mark Smith is an enormously wealthy investor who has built his fortune through his legendary investing acumen and his sound application of engineering risk benefit principles. He currently is reviewing three investment strategies, from which he will adopt one. He has available a moderately aggressive investment option (MAO), a very aggressive investment option (VAO), and a countercyclic investment option (CCO). As we know, returns on investments are not certain and different investment strategies will yield different results depending on market conditions. Mark has conducted extensive market research, and currently believes that there are four possible scenarios that might occur over the lives of these investments: a strong growth economy, an improving economy, a stable economy, or a worsening economy. He estimates that his profits under the four scenarios are as follows:

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Investment Option MAO VAO CCO Strong Growth 35M 45M 10M Improving 30M 40M -10M Stable 10M 5M -10M Worsening -10M -20M 25M