Assignment title: Information
Presentation
• Find the Efficient Frontier using Capital Asset Pricing Model
• Find the tangent portfolio weights (the efficient portfolio with highest Sharpe ratio)
• Go to google finance
– Download daily historical prices from Jan 2013 or more recent
– For:
• The Priceline Group Inc PCLN
• Alphabet GOOGL
• Skyworks Solutions SWKS
• Ocean Power Technologies, Inc OPTT
• Tripadvisor INc TRIP
• ENERGEN EGN
• Unit Corporation UNT
• McAfee Global Technologies MGT
• Grubhub GRUB
• 58.com WUBA
• SAE Exploration SAEX
• Chipotle CMG
• Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK
• Northern Dynasty Minerals NAK
– 5 minute presentation of your results.
– Presentation must include a graph of the efficient frontier in the (return, risk) space j
– Provide excel sheet for calculations
– Provide of explanation for each step and assumptions specifically for the weight combos Presentation
• Need to compute as many combinations of weights for
these 8 companies
Portfolio Average return SD return
(1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
(0.9,0.1,0,0,0,0,0,0)
(0.9,0,0.1,0,0,0,0,0)
…
(0.9,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.1)
(0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0)
(0.1,0.9,0,0,0,0,0,0)
(0,0.9,0.1,0,0,0,0,0)
….
(0,0.9,0,0,0,0,0,0.1)
As many
portfolio
s as you
can