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 5.5%. The probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows:     Expected Return Standard Deviation Stock fund (S) 16% 32%         Bond fund (B) 10 23                         The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20.   Solve numerically for the proportions of each asset and for the expected return and standard deviation of the optimal risky portfolio. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.)   portfolio invested in the stock    portfolio invested in the bond    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 rate of 5.5%. The probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows:

 

 

Expected Return

Standard Deviation

Stock fund (S)

16%

32%

 

 

 

 

Bond fund (B)

10

23

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

The correlation between the fund returns is 0.20.

 

Solve numerically for the proportions of each asset and for the expected return and standard deviation of the optimal risky portfolio. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.)

 

portfolio invested in the stock 

 

portfolio invested in the bond 

 

expected return 

 

standard deviation 

 

 

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Suppose now that your portfolio must yield an expected return of 13% and be efficient, that is, on the best feasible CAL.

What is the proportion invested in the T-bill fund?

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