Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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You are the manager of a £100 million portfolio, and you have 6 investment options:

- First Mortgages: return 9% and risk score 3
- Second Mortgages: return 12% and risk score 6
- Personal Loans: return 15% and risk score 8
- Commercial Loans: return 8% and risk score 2
- Government Securities: return 6% and risk score 1
- Saving Account: return 3% and risk score 0

The current regulation requires that the amount allocated in second mortgages and personal loans (combined) should not exceed the amount allocated in first mortages.

Given this information:

a) Ignoring the risk involved in the different investment options, what is the profit maximizing allocation of resources? What are the expected profits? 

b) Now, you have to consider the risk associated with the investments. The average risk of your portfolio cannot exceed

5. What is the profit maximizing allocation of resources? What are the expected profits?

 The average risk is computed as follows:
Av=rixi/xi where: xi is the amount allocated in the investment option i and ri is the risk score of investment option i.
 

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