– the probability of the high-risk, high-return security will out-perform the low-risk, lowreturn increases with time
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Chapter 12: Portfolio Opportunities and Choice
Objective
To understand the theory of personal portfolio selection in theory and in practice
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But:
• I promised to be perfectly frank and honest (pfah) with you about the ordering of the simulated trajectories • The next trajectory truly was the next trajectory in the sequence, honest!
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From Conjecture to Hypothesis
• You are probably ready to make the hypothesis that