You have $20,000 available to invest in two securities A and B and a one-year investment horizon. Security A has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 30% while security B has an expected return of 5% and a standard deviation of 20%. If the returns on these securities are perfectly negatively correlated, the expected return of the minimum variance portfolio is closest to: A. 6.67%. B. 7.00%. C. 8.00%. D. 8.33%.

You are constructing a portfolio of two assets, Asset A and Asset B. The expected returns of the assets are 12 percent and 16 percent. respectively. The standard deviations of the assets are 29 percent and 37 percent, respectively. The correlation between the two assets is 41 and the risk-free rate is 3.4 percent. What is the optimal Sharpe ratio in a portfolio of the two assets? What is the smallest expected loss for this portfolio over the coming year with a probability of 2.5 percent? (A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your Sharpe ratio answer to 4 decimal places and the z-score value to 3 decimal places when calculating your answer. Enter your smallest expected loss as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) Sharpe ratio Smallest expected loss %

You invest $96 in a risky asset and the T-bill. The risky asset has an expected rate of return of 19% and a standard deviation of 0.22, and a T-bill with a rate of return of 4%. A portfolio that has an expected outcome of $110 is formed by investing what dollar amount in the risky asset? Round your answer to the nearest cent (2 decimal places).

Assume that the short-term risk-free rate is 6%, the market index S&P500 is expected to pay returns of 30% with the standard deviation equal to 40%. Asset A pays on average 10%, has a standard deviation equal to 40% and is NOT correlated with the S&P500. Asset B pays on average 16%, also has a standard deviation equal to 40% and has a correlation of 1 with the S&P500. Determine whether asset A and B are overvalued or undervalued, and explain why.  (Beta of asset i (?i) = ?i ?iM / ?M, where ?i, ?M are standard deviations of asset i and market portfolio, ?iM is the correlation between asset i and the market portfolio)