sharpe (ratio) thinking about the investment opportunity set and capm relationship夏普(比率)考虑投资机会集和capm的关系.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Economics Research International Volume 2011, Article ID 781760, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2011/781760 Research Article Sharpe (Ratio) Thinking about the Investment Opportunity Set and CAPM Relationship Valeriy Zakamulin Faculty of Economics, University of Agder, Service Box 422, 4604 Kristiansand, Norway Correspondence should be addressed to Valeriy Zakamulin, valeri.zakamouline@uia.no Received 6 December 2010; Revised 20 April 2011; Accepted 4 May 2011 Academic Editor: Yi-Ming Wei Copyright © 2011 Valeriy Zakamulin. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In the presence of a risk-free asset the investment opportunity set obtained via the Markowitz portfolio optimization procedure is usually characterized in terms of the vector of excess returns on individual risky assets and the variance-covariance matrix. We show that the investment opportunity set can alternatively be characterized in terms of the vector of Sharpe ratios of individual risky assets and the correlation matrix. This implies that the changes in the characteristics of individual risky assets that preserve the Sharpe ratios and the correlation matrix do not change the investment opportunity set. The alternative characterization makes it simple to perform a comparative static analysis that provides an answer to the question of what happens with the investment opportunity set when we change the risk-return characteristics of individual risky assets. We demonstrate the advantages of using the alternative characterization of the investment opportunity set in the investment practice. The Sharpe ratio thinking