Session 18: Portfolio Management: Capital Market Theory and the Portfolio Management Process Reading 66: Portfolio Concepts
LOS a: Discuss mean–variance analysis and its assumptions, and calculate the expected return and the standard deviation of return for a portfolio of two or three assets.
Mean-variance analysis assumes that investor preferences depend on all of the following EXCEPT:
A) |
correlations among asset returns. | |
B) |
expected asset returns. | |
C) |
skewness of the distribution of asset returns. | |
Mean-variance analysis assumes that investors only need to know expected returns, variances, and covariances in order create optimal portfolios. The skewness of the distribution of expected returns can be ignored. |