There are different types of investors based
on risk aversiveness and this significantly impacts their
investment decisions. A common goal of any type of
investor is to maximize the returns by minimizing the
risk. This study tries to solve this problem as a nonlinear programming problem and aims to optimize the
portfolio weights. A diversified portfolio is built for
aggressive and defensive investors and a modified
version of the Markowitz model with different strategies
is used to analyze the returns. A peculiar observation on
the analysis reveals that the aggressive investor
maximizes the reward to risk ratio but due to the
presence of higher risk-bearing assets in his portfolio the
investor needs a higher CVaR to be prepared for the
downfall. The regression model helps to understand the
relation between absolute portfolio returns and absolute
market returns. It identifies the higher certainty and
predictability of the defensive investor which becomes
crucial since this becomes an important trade-off against
returns. We also find that this fact holds since the
aggressive investor holds a higher margin as compared
to a defensive investor due to the high exposure to
uncertainty in the investment. This study fulfills the
objectives for the two investors in the Indian market
where the asset classes are allocated and defined as per
qualitative security and fundamental analysis
Keywords : Expected Return, Risk, Standard Deviation, Beta, Risk-free rate, Market Risk Premium, Portfolio Optimisation, Tail Risk