FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: THEORY AND PRACT
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ISBN: 9781305632455
Author: BRIGHAM E. F.
Publisher: CENGAGE L
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Chapter 6, Problem 5MC
Your client has decided that the risk of the bond portfolio is acceptable and wishes to leave it as it is. Now your client has asked you to use historical returns to estimate the standard deviation of Blandy’s stock returns. (Note: Many analysts use 4 to 5 years of monthly returns to estimate risk, and many use 52 weeks of weekly returns; some even use a year or less of daily returns. For the sake of simplicity, use Blandy’s 10 annual returns.)
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a. Given the following holding-period returns, compute the average returns and the standard deviations for the Sugita Corporation and for the market.
b. If Sugita's beta is 1.03 and the risk-free rate is 7 percent, what would be an expected return for an investor owning Sugita? (Note: Because the preceding returns are based on monthly data, you will need to annualize the returns to make them comparable with the risk-free
rate. For simplicity, you can convert from monthly to yearly returns by multiplying the average monthly returns by 12.)
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a. Given the holding-period returns shown in the table, the average monthly return for the Sugita Corporation is 2.167 %. (Round to three decimal places.)
The standard deviation for the Sugita Corporation is 3.19 %. (Round to two decimal…
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You expect to invest your funds equally in four stocks with the following expected returns:
Stock
Expected Return
A
16%
B
14%
C
10%
D
8%
At the end of the year, each stock had the following realized returns:
Stock
Expected Return
A
-6%
B
18%
C
3%
D
2%
Compare the portfolio's expected and realized returns.
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: THEORY AND PRACT
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