Weight for a riskless mix of two opposite assets
Question
Asset 1 has expected return and variance ; asset 2 has expected return and variance ; their returns have correlation . You form a portfolio with weights and , , so that it has zero variance. Find to two decimals.
Short answer
. With the portfolio volatility is , which vanishes when . Expected returns play no role.
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- Greeks and Numerical Sensitivities
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Conditional Expectation and Variance Revisited
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