A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are: Stock fund (S) Bond fund (B) Expected Return 16% 10% The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20. Required: Standard Deviation 38% 29% What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? Expected return % = Standard deviation % =
A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are: Stock fund (S) Bond fund (B) Expected Return 16% 10% The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20. Required: Standard Deviation 38% 29% What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? Expected return % = Standard deviation % =
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![A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a
T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are:
Stock fund (S)
Bond fund (B)
Expected Return
16%
10%
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20.
Required:
Standard Deviation
38%
29%
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds?
Expected return %
=
Standard deviation % =](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fc777b96d-210d-4d1d-ac87-4a7052b4eafd%2F1ea1d90e-5093-4674-8cad-9b8564db169e%2Fhkbkrje_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a
T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are:
Stock fund (S)
Bond fund (B)
Expected Return
16%
10%
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20.
Required:
Standard Deviation
38%
29%
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds?
Expected return %
=
Standard deviation % =
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