Emma Li is considering investing in two securities, A and B, and the relevant information is given below: State of Economy Probability Return on Security A (%) Return on Security B (%) Bear 0.2 4 1.2 Bull 1-0.2 10 1.2 Suppose Emma borrowed from her friend 99 shares of security B, which is currently sold at $74, and sold all shares of the security. (She promised her friend she would pay her back in a year with the same number of shares of security B). Then she bought security A with the proceeds obtained in the sales of security B shares and the cash of $2,549 she owned. Calculate the standard deviation of her portfolio. Report your answer in decimal form, rounded to 4 decimal points.

Alecia is a financial investor who actively buys and sells in thesecurities market. Now she has a portfolio of all blue chips, including: $13 500of Share A, $7600 of Share B, $14 700 of Share C, and $5 500 of Share D.Required:a) Compute the weights of the assets in Rachel’s portfolio?b) Following is forecast for economic situation and Alecia’s portfolio returnsnext year, calculate the expected return, variance and standard deviationof the portfolio.State of economy Probability Rate of returnsMild Recession 0.35 - 5%Growth 0.45 15%Strong Growth 0.20 30%

Suppose your parents deposit $4,000 into an account at the end of each year for 11 years. The account earns an annual interest rate of 1.4%. After the final deposit, they move the accumulated savings to a brokerage account and invest in the stock market, where they earn an average annual return of 6.9% for the following 16 years. How much will they have in the account at the end? O a. $131,280 O b. $404,155 O c. $137,311 O d. $296,336 e. $302,138 f. $279,603 g. $496,270 h. $249,511