7. Assume you currently have all your wealth ($1MM) invested in the Vanguard 500 fund, and that you expect to earn an annual return of 7%, with a standard deviati returns of 20%. Since you have become more risk averse, you decide to shift $25- from the Vanguard 500 index fund to Treasury bills. The T-bill rate is 1.5%. Esti

7. Assume you currently have all your wealth ($1MM) invested in the Vanguard 500 fund, and that you expect to earn an annual return of 7%, with a standard deviati returns of 20%. Since you have become more risk averse, you decide to shift $25- from the Vanguard 500 index fund to Treasury bills. The T-bill rate is 1.5%. Esti

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You are considering investing in a mutual fund. The fund is expected to earn a return of 12 percent in the next year. If its annual return is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 4.50 percent, what return can you expect the fund to beat 95 percent of the time? what is the expected return(%)?
(Security market line) Your father just learned from his financial advisor that his retirement portfolio has a beta of 1.83. He has turned to you to explain to him what this means. Specifically, describe what you would expect to happen to the value of his retirement fund if the following were to occur: a. The value of the market portfolio rises by 10 percent. b. The value of the market portfolio drops by 10 percent. c. Is your father's retirement portfolio more or less risky than the market portfolio? Explain. a. If the value of the market portfolio rises by 10%, then the value of your father's retirement fund should by%. (Select from the drop-down menu and round the answer to two decimal places.) decrease increase
A risky fund has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 18%. the T-Bill Rate is 5%. An Investor allocates 110% of her retirement portfolio to the risky fund and -10% to T-Bills (recall the negative allocations to T-ills indicates borrowing at the risk free rate) What is the investor's risk aversion coefficient? (PLEASE SHOW WORK!!) A) 2.06 B) -0.71 C) 3.7 D) 1.40
4. Suppose you are a money manager of a $10 million investment fund. The fund is invested in three assets with the following investments and betas: Investment Beta 1.80 0.75 1.20 The remainder is invested in T-bills (risk free asset) with 3% return. a. If the market expected rate of return is 9% what is the fund's expected rate of return? b. Using Funds A and B, create a portfolio (report the portfolio weights and $ investment out of $10 million) with a 0.92 beta. Stock A B C $3,000,000 2,000,000 4,000,000
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