Which of the following is a second way of formulating the ...

[awywial]

Which of the following is a second way of formulating the Markowitz model?
 a. Maximizing the expected return of the portfolio subject to a constraint on variance
  b. Minimizing the expected return of the portfolio subject to a constraint on variance.
  c. Maximizing the variance of the portfolio subject to a constraint on the expected return of the portfolio
  d. Maximizing the variance of the portfolio with no constraint needed for the expected return of the portfolio

Question 2

__________ is the data set used to build the candidate models.
 a. Range b. Codomain
  c. Validation set d. Training set

[Mollythedog]

Answer to Question 1

a
RATIONALE: Two basic ways to formulate the Markowitz model are (1) to minimize the variance of the portfolio subject to a constraint on the expected return of the portfolio and (2) to maximize the expected return of the portfolio subject to a constraint on variance.

Answer to Question 2

d
RATIONALE: Training set is the data set used to build the candidate models.

[awywial]

Excellent

[peter]

Great answer, keep it coming