The strategic asset allocation is the most important decision an investor undertakes. An adequate foundation requires a multi-step, structured process. The investor needs a realistic view of capital market behaviour and has to examine his own goals, his risk tolerance and maybe further...

Contrary to static mean-variance analysis, very few papers have dealt with dynamic mean-variance analysis. Here, the mean-variance efficient self-financing portfolio strategy is derived for n risky assets in discrete and continuous time. In the discrete setting, the resulting portfolio is...