ces Required information Section Break (8-11) [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] 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) Expected Return Standard Deviation 16% Bond fund (8) 38% 29% 10% The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20. Problem 6-8 (Algo) Required: What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Expected return Standard deviation 12.07 % %
ces Required information Section Break (8-11) [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] 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) Expected Return Standard Deviation 16% Bond fund (8) 38% 29% 10% The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20. Problem 6-8 (Algo) Required: What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Expected return Standard deviation 12.07 % %
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Section Break (8-11)
[The following information applies to the questions displayed below.]
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 (8)
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20.
Problem 6-8 (Algo)
Expected Return Standard Deviation
16%
38%
10%
29%
Required:
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round
intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Expected return
Standard deviation
12.07%
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Required information
Section Break (8-11)
[The following information applies to the questions displayed below.]
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 (8)
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20.
Problem 6-8 (Algo)
Expected Return Standard Deviation
16%
38%
10%
29%
Required:
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round
intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Expected return
Standard deviation
12.07%
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