1. School of Banking and Finance www.banking.unsw.edu.au

2. FINS3640 - Investment Management Modeling Week 7 - 31 Aug 2010 Efficient Frontier

3. Revision Week 6 Matrix algebra SUMPRODUCT TRANSPOSE MMULT Portfolio expected return Portfolio variance Portfolio risk-return convex

4. Where we were: portfolio convex

5. Where we want to be: efficient frontier

6. Method 1: Black's Shortcut

7. Method 2: Excel Solver Advantage: locate tangency portfolio & GMVP