Investments, tenth edition

Security Selection 

 We can generalize the portfolio con-

struction problem to the case of many 

risky securities and a risk-free asset. 

As in the two risky assets example, 

the problem has three parts. First, 

we identify the risk–return combina-

tions available from the set of risky 

assets. Next, we identify the optimal 

portfolio of risky assets by finding 

the portfolio weights that result in 

the steepest CAL. Finally, we choose 

an appropriate complete portfolio 

by mixing the risk-free asset with 

the optimal risky portfolio. Before 

describing the process in detail, let 

us first present an overview. 

 The first step is to determine the 

risk–return opportunities available to 

the investor. These are summarized 

by the