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Category > Business & Finance Posted 31 Jul 2017 My Price 8.00

1. You can form a portfolio of two assets, A and B,

1. You can form a portfolio of two assets, A and B, whose returns have the following characteristics:

Stock

Expected Return

Standard Deviation

Correlation

A

10%

20%

  
     

.5

B

15

40

  

If you demand an expected return of 12%, what are the portfolio weights? What is the portfolio’s standard deviation?

2. Here are some historical data on the risk characteristics of Dell and McDonald’s:

 

Dell

McDonald’s

β (beta)

1.41

.77

Yearly standard deviation of return (%)

30.9

17.2

Assume the standard deviation of the return on the market was 15%.

a. The correlation coefficient of Dell’s return versus McDonald’s is .31. What is the standard deviation of a portfolio invested half in Dell and half in McDonald’s?

b. What is the standard deviation of a portfolio invested one-third in Dell, one-third in McDonald’s, and one-third in risk-free Treasury bills?

c. What is the standard deviation if the portfolio is split evenly between Dell and McDonald’s and is financed at 50% margin, i.e., the investor puts up only 50% of the total amount and borrows the balance from the broker?

d. What is the approximate standard deviation of a portfolio composed of 100 stocks with betas of 1.41 like Dell? How about 100 stocks like McDonald’s? ( Hint: Part (d) should not require anything but the simplest arithmetic to answer.)

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