January 28th, 2006, 10:22 pm
R = SRvol1 + rf, SRvol2 + rf SRvol3 + rf . . . SRvoln + rfand you want to maxT= (w'R - rf)/sqrt(w'Vw) - Lamba(1-w'I) wrt wSo, since R is the same for each, I think ( check this ) thatT simplifies to SR*(w'R*)/sqrt(w'V'w) - Lamba(1-w'I) where R* = vol1 + rf/SR vol2 + rf/SR . . . . . voln + rf/SRMaximizing c*AX where c is a constant, is the same as maximizing AX so SR on the outside doesn't effect the maximizationproblem,so we can now maximize T* = (w'R*)/sqrt(w'V'w) - Lamba(1-w'I) but, the same amount, c= rf/SR is being added to the vector R* each timeso, since maximizing w'(x + c) where c is a constant is the same as maximizing w'x so , wecan just maximize T** = (w'R**)/sqrt(w'V'w) - Lamba(1-w'I) where R** = vol1 vol2 . . . . . voln R** doesn't involve SR so we have shown that the maximization is independent of the value of SR.