NO.PZ2023010407000037
问题如下:
Mbalenhle Calixto is a global institutional portfolio manager who prepares for an annual meeting with the investment committee (IC) of the Estevão University Endowment. The endowment has €450 million in assets, and the current asset allocation is 42% equities, 22% fixed income, 19% private equity, and 17% hedge funds.
The IC’s primary investment objective is to maximize returns subject to a given level of volatility. A secondary objective is to avoid a permanent loss of capital, and the IC has indicated to Calixto its concern about left-tail risk. Calixto considers two asset allocation approaches for the endowment: mean–variance optimization (MVO) and mean–CVaR (conditional value at risk) optimization.
Determine the asset allocation approach that is most suitable for the Endowment. Justify your response.
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解释:
mean–CVaR (conditional value at risk) optimization is the most suitable. the reasons are as following:
- the distribution of the current asset is no nomal distuibution. using MVO may over allocate the derivative.
- mean–CVaR optimization consider the left tail risk, which can meet the needs of IC.