Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 1 30K a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
The time-zero budget constraint isso . The terminal wealth is thereforePutThenand the target mean is the linear constraint .
Since the invertible covariance matrix is positive definite, the Lagrange multiplier equation for minimizing isThusThe constraint determinesThis is the one-period Gaussian minimum-variance portfolio; the riskless holding is then .