Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are: Expected Return 17% Standard Deviation 32% Stock fund (S) Bond fund (B) 11% 23% The correlation between the fund returns is 0.25. Required: What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Expected return % Standard deviation
Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are: Expected Return 17% Standard Deviation 32% Stock fund (S) Bond fund (B) 11% 23% The correlation between the fund returns is 0.25. Required: What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Expected return % Standard deviation
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A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government
and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability
distributions of the risky funds are:
Expected Return
17%
Standard Deviation
32%
Stock fund (S)
Bond fund (B)
11%
23%
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.25.
Required:
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round
intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Expected return
%
Standard deviation](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F5b1d852f-d65d-4bfd-9cc3-fd21f3fb2857%2F98466fde-1989-47cd-8bd2-4f4b8081842d%2F7svb6ee_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government
and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability
distributions of the risky funds are:
Expected Return
17%
Standard Deviation
32%
Stock fund (S)
Bond fund (B)
11%
23%
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.25.
Required:
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round
intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Expected return
%
Standard deviation
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