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Mean Variance Portfolio Allocation

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The basic rules of balancing the expected return on an investment against its contribution to portfolio risk are surveyed. The related concept of Capital Asset Pricing Model asserting that the expected return of an asset must be linearly related to the covariance of its return with the return of the market portfolio if the market is efficient and its statistical tests in terms of Arbitraging Price Theory are also surveyed. The intertemporal generalization and issues of estimation errors and portfolio choice are discussed as well.

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Cheng Hsiao & Shin-Huei Wang

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  1. Dept. Finance, Rutgers University, Rockafeller Road 94, New Brunswick, 08854-8054, New Jersey, USA

    Cheng-Few Lee

  2. College of Business, San Francisco State University, Holloway Ave. 1600, San Fransisco, 94132, California, USA

    Alice C. Lee

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Hsiao, C., Wang, SH. (2013). Mean Variance Portfolio Allocation. In: Lee, CF., Lee, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Finance. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5360-4_20

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