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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 sure rate of 5.5%. The probability
distributions of the risky funds are:
Stock fund (S)
Bond fund (8)
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.30.
Problem 6-9 (Algo)
Expected Return Standard Deviation
17%
32%
11%
23%
Required:
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 and round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)
Portfolio invested in the stock
Portfolio invested in the bond
Expected return
Standard deviation
%
%
%
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Section Break (8-11)
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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 sure rate of 5.5%. The probability
distributions of the risky funds are:
Stock fund (S)
Bond fund (8)
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.30.
Problem 6-9 (Algo)
Expected Return Standard Deviation
17%
32%
11%
23%
Required:
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 and round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)
Portfolio invested in the stock
Portfolio invested in the bond
Expected return
Standard deviation
%
%
%
%
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