Joe is a new investor and has been closely watching a company by the name of USA Ltd., a pharmaceutical company aiming to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Joe believes the following returns are possible in 2022 and has attached a probability to each potential outcome:     Probability Possible Return .20 185.00% .30 83.50% .30 -5.00% .20 -100.00% d) Joe is considering investing all his savings in buying shares in USA Ltd.  Explain to Joe why he should not do this by referring to the risk/return trade-off and what action Joe can take to reduce some of the risk

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Joe is a new investor and has been closely watching a company by the name of USA Ltd., a pharmaceutical company aiming to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

Joe believes the following returns are possible in 2022 and has attached a probability to each potential outcome:

 

 

Probability

Possible Return

.20

185.00%

.30

83.50%

.30

-5.00%

.20

-100.00%

d) Joe is considering investing all his savings in buying shares in USA Ltd.  Explain to Joe why he should not do this by referring to the risk/return trade-off and what action Joe can take to reduce some of the risk

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The return from a stock is highly volatile. There are four possible states of return with their probabilities. We will first calculate the  expected return, standard deviation return and then coefficient of variation, CV.

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