Question: In this exercise you will generate the envelope and efficient frontier for your two share portfolio. The expected portfolio return and portfolio variance calculated in

In this exercise you will generate the envelope and efficient frontier for your two share portfolio. The expected portfolio return and portfolio variance calculated in exercise 2, will be used as inputs for Solver to determine the lowest risk for a given level of return. The optimisation will have the following constraints. Portfolio weights must sum to 1 (short positions in either share are allowed) and each optimisation must be subjected to a prespecified return target. To trace the entire envelope and efficient frontier, you will need to input the objectives and constraints into Solver and run the optimisation for each level of portfolio return target. You must also be able to identify the weights in each share for every optimisation. The alternative method to Solver is Excel's What-If data table function. Set up a column of potential weights for share one and two more columns for the portfolio risk and portfolio return. Create a chart of the portfolio risk and return output.

In this exercise you will generate the envelope
B C D E F G H M N O P R MLO1,2 & 3 Unconstrained Jan 2020 - April 2025 Naspers FirstRand Target Std dev E(R) WNPN WFSR WNPN Port. Risk E(r) 3 Cumulative rt For Solver... Daily mean rt Objective -0.5 Daily variance MIN Port. Risk -0.4 Daily standard deviation wi -0.3 -0.2 8 Annual mean rt Constraints Target 0.1 9 Annual variance EWi 0 10 Annual Std deviation E(Ri 0.1 11 0.2 12 Covariance Where 0.3 13 Correlation E(Ri) 0.4 14 Port. Risk 0.5 15 0.6 16 wi FSR 0.7 17 0.8 18 E(R) 0.9 19 Port. Risk 20 1.1 21 1.2 22 1.3 23 Log returns 1.4 24 Date NPN.JO FSR.JO NPN.JO FSR.JO 1.5 25 02/01/2020 233720.328 6307.25391 26 03/01/2020 235370.125 6213.51807 06/01/2020 234350.25 5988.15234 28 07/01/2020 235780.063 6023.05371 08/01/2020 232470.5 6019.06445 09/01/2020 234089.281 6048.98096 10/01/2020 237519.844 6003.10938 13/01/2020 238872.688 5915.35645 14/01/2020 242595.219 6032.02832 15/01/2020 244968.922 6045.98926 16/01/2020 245018.906 6041.00391 17/01/2020 251019.141 5985.16016 20/01/2020 251968.016 5958.23682 21/01/2020 247034.656 5995.13184 22/01/2020 248603.438 6087.87158 23/01/2020 242969.141 6022.05762 24/01/2020 246677.703 6023.05371 27/01/2020 237715.844 5928.31982 28/01/2020 237646.844 5903.39014 29/01/2020 245147.906 5930.31445 30/01/2020 245963.781 5936.29785 31/01/2020 246040.781 5763.7832 03/02/2020 249526.359 5746.83154 04/02/2020 258792.156 5846.55029

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