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portstats

Portfolio expected return and risk

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Syntax

[PortRisk,PortReturn] = portstats(ExpReturn,ExpCovariance)
[PortRisk,PortReturn] = portstats(___,Wts)

Description

[PortRisk,PortReturn] = portstats(ExpReturn,ExpCovariance) computes the expected rate of return and risk for a portfolio of assets.

Note

An alternative for portfolio optimization is to use the Portfolio object for mean-variance portfolio optimization. This object supports gross or net portfolio returns as the return proxy, the variance of portfolio returns as the risk proxy, and a portfolio set that is any combination of the specified constraints to form a portfolio set. For information on the workflow when using Portfolio objects, see Portfolio Object Workflow.

example

[PortRisk,PortReturn] = portstats(___,Wts) specifies options using one or more optional arguments in addition to the input arguments in the previous syntax.

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Examples

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Open Live Script

This example shows how to calculate the expected rate of return and risk for a portfolio of assets.

ExpReturn = [0.1 0.2 0.15]; 

ExpCovariance = [0.0100   -0.0061    0.0042 
                -0.0061    0.0400   -0.0252 
                 0.0042   -0.0252    0.0225 ];
 
PortWts=[0.4 0.2 0.4; 0.2 0.4 0.2];

[PortRisk, PortReturn] = portstats(ExpReturn, ExpCovariance,... 
PortWts)
PortRisk = 2×1

    0.0560
    0.0550


PortReturn = 2×1

    0.1400
    0.1300

Input Arguments

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Expected (mean) return of each asset, specified as a 1-by-NASSETS vector.

Data Types: double

Asset return covariances, specified as an NASSETS-by-NASSETS matrix.

Data Types: double

(Optional) Weights allocated to each asset, specified as an NPORTS-by-NASSETS matrix. Each row represents a different weighting combination of the assets in the portfolio. If Wts is not entered, weights of 1/NASSETS are assigned to each security.

Data Types: double

Output Arguments

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Standard deviation of each portfolio, returned as an NPORTS-by-1 vector.

Expected return of each portfolio, returned an NPORTS-by-1 vector.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

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