RESEARCH ARTICLE


Portfolio Analysis of Investments in Risk Management



D.S. Hooda1, M. Stehlík2, *
1 Jaypee University of Engineering Technology, A.B. Road, Raghogarh-473226 Distt. Guna-M.P, India
2 Department of Applied Statistics, Johannes Kepler University, Freistädter Straße 315, 2. Stock A-4040 Linz a. D. Linz, Austria

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2011
Volume: 3
First Page: 21
Last Page: 26
Publisher Id: TOSPJ-3-21
DOI: 10.2174/1876527001103010021

Article History:

Received Date: 12/5/2011
Revision Received Date: 25/6/2011
Acceptance Date: 28/6/2011
Electronic publication date: 26/8/2011
Collection year: 2011

© 2011 Hooda et al.;

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Applied Statistics, Johannes Kepler University, Freistädter Straße 315, 2. Stock A-4040 Linz a. D. Linz, Austria. Tel: +43 732 2468 5881; Fax: +43 732 2468 9846; E-mail: Milan.Stehlik@jku.at


Abstract

In many practical investment situations the amount of available memory on stock data is extremely huge. Thus many investors are attracted to base their decisions on the information "currently available in their minds" (see [1, 2]). In the present paper various risk measurement models having application in the investment management are discussed. First we explain the concept of mean variance efficient frontier and Markowitz’s model to find all efficient portfolios that maximize the expected returns and minimize the risk. Markovian risk measures are also mentioned. Some measures of portfolio analysis based on entropy mean-variance frontier are studied. Risk aversion index and Pareto-optimal sharing of risk are explained. In view of these facts it is very interesting to study how the investor should make investments so that his total expected return is maximized and the risk of losing his capital is minimized. A maximum entropy model in risk sharing is proposed and applied to some problems.

Keywords: Portfolio, Markowitz’s model, Mean-Variance, Entropy..