Quality Investments has a $25 million portfolio with a beta of 1.4. Thefirm employs the E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contract which has price of11,866 and one contract is on $20 times the Nasdaq-100 index. Howmany contracts are necessary to reduce the beta to 0.8 (round youranswer to the nearest whole number)?

We can determine the number of contracts required using the formula below:

Answered: Quality Investments has a $25 million…

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