Task
Discuss investor risk preferences and the implied risk profile of the uncle;
Explain the fundamental concepts behind the optimal portfolio of risky assets;
Explain how the addition of a risk-free asset in a portfolio was useful for generating a higher risk adjusted return;
and finally make your recommendation.
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Excel Spreadsheet
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Further, the weights assigned in Exhibit D of the worksheet have been used to calculate portfolio return, risk and standard deviation as well as Sharpe Ratio.
Then, the ‘Data solver’ has been used to calculate maximum portfolio return in cell R28 subject to constraints of weights being not more than 18% and total being 100% and portfolio variance not to exceed 10%. This results in maximum return of 25% with risk being 10%.
Another sheet ‘Ex 2 (without 18% constraint)’ has been added that calculates maximum return without the constraint of weights not being more than 18%. This results in maximum return of 28.35% with risk being 10%.
The results of this sheet have been used to populate ‘Ex 1’ as it has a two asset portfolio model.
Introduction
The following pages in the report discuss the investor situation and how he wants to make decisions regarding future investment. The report will also provide recommendation on the basis of investor’s risk appetite, return requirement and preferences regarding investment instruments.
Investor Situation
The investor is retired and has limited appetite for risk of investments and wants maximum possible returns with the preferred constraints. Further, the investor made some investments in one balanced fund that continues to give negative returns despite a shooting stock market index.
Hence, now the investor wants to invest in a portfolio of good performing mutual funds and diversify across funds rather than one single mutual fund.
Further, the constraints provided include no investment in individual stocks due to high risk and preference is for mutual funds only. Additionally, the investor wants to invest across funds and create a portfolio of multiple funds in order to diversify risk. The investor prefers long term returns and does not want to be involved in short selling of securities. The investor needs maximum possible return with the portfolio risk of not more than 10 per cent.
Fund Selection
Basis comprehensive mutual fund information available on www.moneycontrol.com, quarterly return data (previous twenty quarters) for ten mutual funds has been selected (available in Exhibit 1). Basis the quarterly return available; annualized return, standard deviation and risk variance for various funds has been calculated. A variance-covariance matrix has also been created.
Portfolio Creation
Basis above, a portfolio of the ten funds has been created by assigning weights the sum of which equal to 100%. Portfolio return and risk (variance and standard deviation) and Sharpe ratio has been calculated.
Scenario 1:
Using ‘Data Solver’ tool in MS-Excel, the portfolio return has been maximized using constraints that include:
This resulted in 25.00% expected return with a risk of 3.27% and includes following investments:
Scenario 2:
Another scenario has been generated where the weightage constraint of 18% has been removed. This resulted in 28.25% expected return with a risk of 10% and includes following investments:
Recommendation
Given that the investor wants to diversify as far as possible and also wants to minimize risk, it is recommended that the investor considers Scenario 1 that has investments across more number of funds and has much lower risk variance of 3.27%. Although Scenario 2 generates marginally higher return of 28.35%, the risk variance is high at 10% and also, the investments are across only two mutual funds.
It must be noted that all calculations have been performed on the basis of historical performance of these funds and is subject to market risk.
scenario for Uncle and how he wants
is report provides recommendation to the investor as per the risk and return preferences requested.
Discuss investor risk preferences and the implied risk profile of the uncle; Explain the fundamental concepts behind the optimal portfolio of risky assets; Explain how the addition of a risk-free asset in a portfolio was useful for generating a higher risk adjusted return; and finally make your recommendation.
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