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The Much-Maligned Market Portfolio
It seems generally acknowledged that no investment strategy should be expected to offer an optimal trade-off between return and risk in all periods. Yet I often hear criticism of market-cap weighting, presumably because modern portfolio theory (MPT) postulates a hypothetical market portfolio as efficient in the mean-variance sense. Financial engineers, product developers, and asset managers…
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