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Introduction: Portfolio consists of assets which have different rates as well as different risk associated with the assets, a risk free asset and asset that contains risk, both have a certain percentage of return.
To calculate: the utility levels of each portfolio for an investor with A=2.
Utility of portfolio can be calculated by the formula provided below:
Calculating utility for each investment taking A=2
Return of portfolio (Return Weight of bills | Standard deviation of portfolio (Standard deviation weight of bills) | Variance of Portfolio | Weight of bills | Weight of Index | U(A=2) |
0.130 | 0.20 | 0.0400 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
0.114 | 0.16 | 0.0256 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
0.098 | 0.12 | 0.0144 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
0.082 | 0.08 | 0.0064 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
0.066 | 0.04 | 0.0016 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
0.050 | 0.00 | 0.0000 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
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Utility of portfolio can be calculated by the formula provided below:
Calculating utility for each investment taking A=2
Return of portfolio (Return Weight of bills | Standard deviation of portfolio (Standard deviation weight of bills) | Variance of Portfolio | Weight of bills | Weight of Index | U(A=2) |
0.130 | 0.20 | 0.0400 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
0.114 | 0.16 | 0.0256 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
0.098 | 0.12 | 0.0144 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
0.082 | 0.08 | 0.0064 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
0.066 | 0.04 | 0.0016 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
0.050 | 0.00 | 0.0000 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
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