Sharpe (1964) formulated CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model), whose foundation is the deduction that the
efficient portfolio would be the market portfolio itself.
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Table 3 also shows five Sharia mutual funds that have consistently positive performance based on four performance measurements used, meaning that the Sharia mutual funds had an
efficient portfolio. The five Sharia mutual funds that have consistently positive performance comes from three Sharia fixed income mutual funds and two others are classified as the Sharia equity mutual funds.
The optimal portfolio should be the tangency portfolio between the EF and the highest indifference curve or, in other words, the
efficient portfolio with maximum expected utility.
Markowitz's mean variance criterion simply states that an investor should always choose an
efficient portfolio.
However, the result will be a less
efficient portfolio in terms of excess risk per unit of return.
Among the advantages are broad diversification, professional management, liquidity,
efficient portfolio management and, most importantly, the opportunity to buy at a discount to the net asset value of the fund.
The portfolio analysis is done to identify and select those diverse securities which can achieve the desired risk for the portfolio or in other words select the most
efficient portfolio. The investor on the other hand selects from a wide array of available portfolios one that optimizes both the risk and return relationship.
"We have a very
efficient portfolio and we still have more we can do to it.
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"We built it to help solve a need that they saw, to deliver an
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Hence, without knowing his exact utility function in terms of Von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944), an investor is likely to maximize the true expected utility when selecting his preferred mean-variance
efficient portfolio.
