Simple Construction of the Efficient Frontier

9 Pages Posted: 24 Nov 2001

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David Feldman

Banking and Finance, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney; Financial Research Network (FIRN)

Haim Reisman

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology - William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management

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Date Written: November 11, 2002

Abstract

We provide simple methods of constructing known results. At the core of our methods is the identification of a simple concise basis that spans the Capital Market Line (CML). We show that a portfolio whose risky assets weights are the product of the inverse variance-covariance matrix of (nonredundant) security rates of return times the vector of the excess expected rates of return over the risk-free rate is a CML portfolio. This portfolio and the risk-free security span the CML. In addition, with this basis, there is immediate construction of the efficient frontier of risky assets (the "hyperbola"), "tangency" portfolios, "reflection" portfolios, and a CAPM relationship. Our method is quick and simple. It is easy to derive, teach, implement, interpret, and remember.

Keywords: portfolio frontier, efficient frontier, capital market line, asset pricing

JEL Classification: G10, G11, G12

Suggested Citation

Feldman, David and Reisman, Haim, Simple Construction of the Efficient Frontier (November 11, 2002). EFMA 2002 London Meetings, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=291654 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.291654

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