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1. Your investment has a 20% chance of earning a 10% rate of return, a 70% chance of earning a 30% rate of return, and a 10% chance of losing 15%. What is the standard deviation on this investment?

2. If you are promised a nominal return of 12.5% on a 1-year investment, and you expect the rate of inflation to be 8.5%, what real rate do you expect to earn?

3. Treasury bills are paying a 2.5% rate of return. A risk-averse investor with a risk aversion of A = 1.9 should invest entirely in a risky portfolio with a standard deviation of 5% only if the risky portfolio's expected return is at least

NOTE: All answers should be express in strictly numerical terms. For example, if the answer is 5%, write 0.05

 

 

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