Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780134083278
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 27P
A hedge fund has created a portfolio using just two stocks. It has shorted $35,000,000 worth of Oracle stock and has purchased $85,000,000 of Intel stock. The correlation between Oracle’s and Intel’s returns is 0.65. The expected returns and standard deviations of the two stocks are given in the table below:
| Expected Return | Standard Deviation | |
| Oracle | 12.00% | 45.00% |
| Intel | 14.50% | 40.00% |
- a. What is the expected return of the hedge fund’s portfolio?
- b. What is the standard deviation of the hedge fund’s portfolio?
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Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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