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 two risky funds are: a sure rate of 5.8%. The probability distributions of the Expected Return 19% Standard Deviation Stock fund (S) Bond fund (B) 48% 42% 9% The correlation between the two fund returns is .0762 What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to two decimal places.) Expected return Standard deviation

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 two risky funds are: a sure rate of 5.8%. The probability distributions of the Expected Return 19% Standard Deviation Stock fund (S) Bond fund (B) 48% 42% 9% The correlation between the two fund returns is .0762 What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to two decimal places.) Expected return Standard deviation

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Author:Randall Billingsley, Lawrence J. Gitman, Michael D. Joehnk

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Chapter13: Investing In Mutual Funds, Etfs, And Real Estate

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