 Scaled centered risk under concave utility (source code)

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= Scaled centered risk under concave utility

If $U$ is concave and $\mathbb E Z=0$, then
$$
G(s)=\mathbb E[U(m+sZ)]
$$
is concave in $s$. By <Jensen inequality>, $G(s)\leq G(0)$; concavity then makes $G$ nonincreasing on $[0,\infty)$.

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