Exercice 5 ( Answer question 7 to  9) The expected return on treasury bills E(RF)= 4% Calculate the expected return E(.) for the market portfolio, the FGL security and the SDL Calculate the variance and standard deviation for the market portfolio, FGL security and SDL Calculate the covariance between the market portfolio and the FGL security, and the covariance between the market portfolio and the SDL Calculate the correlation coefficient between the market portfolio and the FGL security, and the correlation coefficient between the market portfolio and the SDL security. Calculate the beta of FGL stock relative to the market portfolio with two different methods. Calculate the beta of the SDL stock relative to the market portfolio with two different Calculate the expected return of the Pfl portfolio composed of 70% FGL stock and 30% SDL stock, what is the beta of this portfolio? Using CAPM assess the performance of FGL and SDL

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