Max-Sharpe weight in A with a fully invested budget
Question
Assets and have expected excess returns of and , and their excess returns have covariance matrix . You hold units of and units of with (short positions allowed). What value of maximises the portfolio's Sharpe ratio?
Short answer
. The maximum-Sharpe (tangency) weights are proportional to . Scaling to sum to one gives and .
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- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Conditional Expectation and Variance Revisited
- Covariance and Correlation
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