Suppose you are concerned about your firm’s jet fuel exposure. Further, your analysis suggests the best futures contract to hedge jet fuel is unleaded gasoline. The fuel volatility (standard deviation of changes in' your firm’s entire jet fuel exposure) is $17,347,281, and the unleaded gasoline futures contract volatility (standard deviation of price changes in one unleaded gasoline futures contract) is $14,490. Suppose the correlation coefficient between fuel volatility and unleaded gasoline futures contract volatility is 0.71. Calculate the minimum variance hedge ratio. Defend whether this’ is a perfect hedge.

1. Stock Y has a beta of 1.2 and an expected return of 11.1 percent. Stock Z has a beta of .8 and an expected return of 7.85 percent. If the risk-free rate is 2.4 percent and the market risk premium is 7.2 percent, the reward-to-risk ratios for stocks Y and Z are ____ and ____ percent, respectively. Since the SML reward-to-risk is ____ percent, Stock Y is ____(undervalued/ overvalued) and Stock Z is ____(undervalued/ overvalued).

The data on the expected return of 2 stocks (M and C) along with the economic conditions and their probabilities is attached below   Questions : Calculate the expected return for asset M and asset C. Calculate the standard deviation for asset M and asset C. c) If asset M is a market portfolio, while the beta (β) for asset C is 1.25 and the risk-free asset is 6%. What is the required rate of return for asset C according to the CAPM method ?. .

You are given the following Information concerning three portfolios, the market portfollo, and the risk-free asset: Portfolio X Y Z Market Risk-free Rp 14.10% 13.10 8.50 12.00 7.20 Information ratio op 39.00% 34.00 1.15 0.90 1.00 0 Assume that the tracking error of Portfolio X is 8.90 percent. What is the information ratio for Portfolio X? Note: A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round Intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 4 decimal places. 6p 1.50 24.00 29.00 0