In: Finance
In table 1.1 below, information on three stocks (X, Y and Z) in
the next period is stated. The stocks are traded on a financial
market, where the usual assumptions for a normal market are
satisfied. It is assumed, that a risk-free asset is traded on the
financial market as well, which has a return of 5% (rf) in the next
period.
Problem: Determine the tangent portfolio of the three stocks (i.e.
determine the weights that the three stocks have in the
portfolio)
Hint 1: Recall, that the tangency portfolio (T) is given as the
portfolio that has the largest Sharpe Ratio. To find T, you
therefore have to write up the expression for Sharpe Ratio and
maximize this in Excel or another program.
Hint 2: Recall (cf. formula 11.11), that the variance of a
portfolio’s return is given by: Var( RP ~ )= ∑= N i 1 ∑= N j 1
xixjCov( ir ~ , j r ~ ) Where xi and xj denotes de respective
portfolio weights, i,j = 1,2...N.
Stock | Std. Deviation Of the return | Expected return | Correlation with return on Y | Correlation with return on Z |
X | 0,2 | 0,15 | 0,8 | -0,1 |
Y | 0,3 | 0,1 | 1 | 0,2 |
Z | 0,25 | 0,12 | 0,2 | 1 |
R(f) | 5% | |||
Covariances | X | Y | Z | |
Problem 1.1 + 1.2 | X | 0,04 | 0,048 | -0,005 |
Y | 0,048 | 0,09 | 0,015 | |
Z | -0,005 | 0,015 | 0,0625 | |