Paper 4, Section II, J
Part II, 2013
Let denote the time- prices of risky assets in which an agent may invest, . He may also invest his money in a bank account, which will return interest at rate . At time 0 , he knows and , and he knows that . If he chooses at time 0 to invest cash value in risky asset , express his wealth at time 1 in terms of his initial wealth , the choices , the value of , and .
Suppose that his goal is to minimize the variance of subject to the requirement that the mean should be at least , where is given. What portfolio should he choose to achieve this?
Suppose instead that his goal is to minimize subject to the same constraint. Show that his optimal portfolio is unchanged.