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1 Executive Summary Memo: Group 1 Subject: Arbor City Problem: Recommendation for the portfolio: Current allocation or SPY? Provide relevant risk measures for this decision. Options: 1. Continue using the current capital allocation of the portfolio for its fund. 2. Switch to using the SPY for its fund which is an ETF that follows the S&P 500 Recommendation: We recommend the SPY Analysis: After having looked at the Skewness and Kurtosis we established the risk metric was the best approach to evaluate the VaR of our data. From this we saw that the VaR was greater for the SPY than the current allocation. (At the daily 95% confidence level VaR for the SPY is - 0.765% representing a loss of around $1.836 million and -0.544% for the current allocation representing a value at risk of $1.305 million of the total $240 million fund.) However, both were within the threshold. Furthermore, we looked at the advantages of the SPY such as its simplicity and reduced costs. Lastly, we compared the expected return and saw that the SPY had a greater expected return. Hence as the funds objectives are to maximize its returns within a threshold of safety we believe the SPY satisfies these objectives the best.
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