In their April 2016 paper entitled «
Asset Allocation: A Recommendation for Resolving the Collision between Theory and Practice», Larry Prather, James McCown and Ron Shaw describe how individual investors can construct and
maintain a low - cost
optimal (maximum Sharpe ratio) multi-class portfolio via the Excel Solver function.
The first step to understanding
optimal asset allocation is defining its meaning and purpose, and then taking a closer look at how
allocation can benefit you and the right
asset mix to help achieve and
maintain it.