Optimization. The Efficient Frontier. The Capital Asset Pricing Model. Sharpe Ratios and Implied Risk-Free Returns. Quadratic Programming Geometry. A QP Solution Algorithm. Portfolio Optimization with Linear Inequality Constraints. Determination of the Entire Efficient Frontier. Sharpe Ratios under Constraints and Kinks. Appendix. References.
Michael J. Best is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Best has authored over 37 papers on finance and nonlinear programming and co-authored a textbook on linear programming. He also has been a consultant to Bank of America, Ibbotson Associates, Montgomery Assets Management, Deutsche Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank, and Black Rock-Merrill Lynch.
! an excellent companion text for the course 'Discrete-Time Models in Finance' that I have been teaching in the past years. ! I think adding your text can make the course more lively. This is what I plan to do in the coming (fall) semester. --Edward P. Kao, University of Houston, Texas, USA
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