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 rate of 4%. The probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows:                         Expected return               Standard Deviation  Stock fund             22%                                     37% Bond Fund             14                                         23 The correlation between the fund returns is 0.10.     You require that your portfolio yield an expected return of 15%, and that it be efficient, on the best feasible CAL.   a. What is the standard deviation of your portfolio? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)      b. What is the proportion invested in the T-bill fund and each of the two risky funds? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)   T-bill fund stock fund bond fund

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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 rate of 4%. The probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows:

                        Expected return               Standard Deviation 

Stock fund             22%                                     37%

Bond Fund             14                                         23

The correlation between the fund returns is 0.10.

 

 

You require that your portfolio yield an expected return of 15%, and that it be efficient, on the best feasible CAL.

 

a. What is the standard deviation of your portfolio? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

 

  

b. What is the proportion invested in the T-bill fund and each of the two risky funds? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

 

T-bill fund

stock fund

bond fund

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