Consider a stock fund and a bond fund with the following characteristics and a correlation of 0.2. A T-Bill money market fund yields 8%. You are allowed to use all three funds to form an optimal portfolio.   E ( R ) Sigma Stock Fund (S) 20% 30% Bond Fund (B) 12% 10% What would be the portfolio P that consists of the stock fund and the bond fund and that has the highest Sharpe ratio What are the expected return and risk of the optimal risky portfolio P What is the Sharpe ratio of the best feasible capital allocation line (CAL)? Consider an investor with a risk aversion parameter A=10. What is her optimal allocation to the risky portfolio, P

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