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Portfolio Choice:
2. Effects of diversification
Diversification:
Diversification is good in general.
Suppose there are two stocks, with the same
return but different variance, should you invest
everything in the one with lower variance?
n
wk2σk2 +
X X
min wk wl σij s.t.
k=1 k6=l
Xn
wk rk ≥ r̄
k=1
Xn
wk = 1
k=1