第1个回答 2012-01-20
American economists MaKao watts 1952 , first proposed portfolio theory, this theory contains two important content: mean-variance analysis method and the efficient frontier model portfolio. People invest money, essentially is the uncertainty in the returns and risk of choice. Portfolio theory by mean-variance to depict the two key factors. The so-called mean, it is to point to the expectations of the portfolio yields, it is one of the expected rate of return of securities of the weighted average, the weight is corresponding investment proportion. The so-called variance, refers to the combination of the variance of investment return.
Portfolio theory research "rational investor" how to select the optimal portfolio. The so-called rational investor, it is to point to investors in a given level of the expected risk to expect revenue maximization, or in a given level of the expected return to expect to minimize risk. MaKao Bates has proposed "effective investment combination" concept that the fund manager from the past has been focused on the analysis of individual securities to the right to build effective portfolio attention. In fact portfolio theory has extended to the management concept of investment portfolio management. And also can make the investment management practice produced revolutionary change. So the portfolio optimization with the planar traced in, form a curve. This curve has a point, and the fluctuation of the lowest rate, called the minimum party almost (MVP). This curve in the least party almost the part above the is the famous (MaKao d watts) portfolio effective boundary, the corresponding investment combination called effective portfolio. Portfolio effective border a monotonous increasing concave curve.
The so-called optimal portfolio is to point to some investors can get all possible in the portfolio, the only thing you can maximize utility expectations of the investment portfolio. Effective set on the convex and indifference curves under the convex decided the optimal portfolio uniqueness. (image1)