Bharti Singla
Senior Member
An investor wishes to allocate her capital between a service company S and a manufacturing company M. The returns on shares in S have mean 10% and variance 16%% while returns of shares on company M have mean 8% and variance 25%%. The correlation between these is 0.3
(iv) calculate minimum variance portfolio
The minimum variance portfolio is calculated as 65.5% in S and 34.5% in M using a formula. But why not investing 100% in S and 0% in M given that S has higher mean and lower variance?
(iv) calculate minimum variance portfolio
The minimum variance portfolio is calculated as 65.5% in S and 34.5% in M using a formula. But why not investing 100% in S and 0% in M given that S has higher mean and lower variance?