Question: Turn back to Table 6.3 and consider these three-year strategies: Three-In (fully invested in the risky portfolio in each of the three years); One-In (fully

Turn back to Table 6.3 and consider these three-year strategies: Three-In (fully invested in the risky portfolio in each of the three years); One-In (fully invested in the risky portfolio in one year, and in the risk-free asset in the other two); and Third-In-Three (one third of the portfolio invested in the risky portfolio and the remainder in T-bills in each of the three years).
TABLE 6.3: Two-year risk premium, variance, Sharpe ratio, and price of risk for three strategies

Two-In' One-In? Half-in-Two3 Strategy: Risk premium Variance R+R= 2R o? + o? = 20? 0 +R = R 0 + o? = o? 2 x ½ R = R 2 x

a. Which strategy has the lowest Sharpe ratio?
b. Which strategy provides the highest price of risk?
c. Suppose your risk aversion coefficient is A = 2, the expected return on the risky portfolio is 10%, the standard deviation of the risky portfolio is 20%, and the T-bill rate is
4%. If you were allocating your complete portfolio in any year between Three-In and T-bills, what fraction would you devote to Three-In?
d. If you were allocating your complete portfolio in any year between Third-In-Three and T-bills, what fraction would you devote to Third-In-Three?
e. Is there any difference in the complete portfolios that you find in parts (d) and (e)?
f. Is the rational allocation to the risky portfolio for a one-year investor any different than it is for a longer-term three-year investor? In other words, does "time diversification" imply that long-term investors should devote a higher fraction of their investment budget to the risky portfolio?

Two-In' One-In? Half-in-Two3 Strategy: Risk premium Variance R+R= 2R o? + o? = 20? 0 +R = R 0 + o? = o? 2 x R = R 2 x o? = o?/2 Sharpe ratio R/o = S, 2R = S,V2 ov2 = S,V2 %3D Price of risk5 R/a? = P, R/a? = P, 2P, o?/2 %3D

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