1. Describe two major factors that a portfolio manager should consider before designing an investment strategy. What types of decisions can a manager make to achieve these goals?
2. Consider the five different measures of risk-adjusted portfolio performance we have ex- amined: Sharpe ratio, Treynor ratio, Jensen alpha, information ratio, and Sortino ratio.
a. Describe how each of these measures defines the risk that investors face.
b. Describe how each of these measures adjusts a portfolio's return performance for the level of that risk.