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- Assume that you manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 14% and a standard deviation of 46%. The T-bill rate is 4%. Your client chooses to invest 85% of a portfolio in your fund and 15% in a T-bill money market fund. Required: a. What are the expected return and standard deviation of your client's portfolio? (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.) Expected retum Standard deviation b. Suppose your risky portfolio includes the following investments in the given proportions: 30% 30 40 Stock A Stock B Stock C What are the investment proportions of your client's overall portfolio, including the position in T-bills? (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.) Security T-Bills Stock A Stock B Stock C Investment Proportions % per year % per year % % % % Risky portfolio Client's overall portfolio c. What is the reward-to-volatility ratio (S) of your risky portfolio and your client's overall portfolio? (Round your answers to 4 decimal places.) Reward-to-Volatility RatioYou manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 17% and a standard deviation of 28%. The T-bill rate is 7%. Your client's degree of risk aversion is A = 2.0, assuming a utility function u E(r) = A0². a. What proportion, y, of the total investment should be invested in your fund? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Investment proportion y Expected return Standard deviation - % b. What are the expected value and standard deviation of the rate of return on your client's optimized portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) % %You manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 18% and a standard deviation of 29%. The T-bill rate is 5%. Suppose that your client prefers to invest in your fund a proportion y that maximizes the expected return on the complete portfolio subject to the constraint that the complete portfolio's standard deviation will not exceed 18%. a. What is the investment proportion, y? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Investment proportion y % b. What is the expected rate of return on the complete portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return %
- You manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 17% and a standard deviation of 36%. The T-bill rate is 6%. Your client's degree of risk aversion is A = 3.1, assuming a utility function u = E(r) A02. a. What proportion, y, of the total investment should be invested in your fund? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Investment proportion y % b. What are the expected value and standard deviation of the rate of return on your client's optimized portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Expected return % Standard deviation %You manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 19% and a standard deviation of 31%. The T-bill rate is 5%. Suppose that your client prefers to invest in your fund a proportion y that maximizes the expected return on the complete portfolio subject to the constraint that the complete portfolio’s standard deviation will not exceed 19%. a. What is the investment proportion, y? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. What is the expected rate of return on the complete portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)You manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 19% and a standard deviation of 32%. The T-bill rate is 7%. Your client’s degree of risk aversion is A = 3.3, assuming a utility function U = E(r) - ½Aσ². a. What proportion, y, of the total investment should be invested in your fund? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. What is the expected value and standard deviation of the rate of return on your client’s optimized portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
- Assume that you manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 18% and a standard deviation of 42%. The T-bill rate is 6%. Your client chooses to invest 85% of a portfolio in your fund and 15% in a T-bill money market fund. Required: a. What are the expected return and standard deviation of your client's portfolio (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.) Expected return Standard deviation b. Suppose your risky portfolio includes the following investments in the given proportions: 26% 35 39 Stock A Stock B Stock C What are the investment proportions of your client's overall portfolio, including the position in T-bills? (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.) Security T-Bills Stock A Stock B Stock C % per year % per year Investment Proportions % % % %Assume that you manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 14% and a standard deviation of 30%. The T-bill rate is 6%. Your client decides to invest in your risky portfolio a proportion (y) of his total investment budget with the remainder in a T-bill money market fund so that his overall portfolio will have an expected rate of return of 13% a. What is the proportion y? (Enter your answer as a decimal number rounded to 2 decimal places.) Proportion y b. What is the standard deviation of the rate of return on your client's portfolio? (Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to two decimal places.) Standard % per year deviationYou manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 18% and a standard deviation of 28%. The T-bill rate is 8%. Your client’s degree of risk aversion is A = 3.5.a. What proportion, y, of the total investment should be invested in your fund?b. What is the expected value and standard deviation of the rate of return on your client’s optimized portfolio?
- Suppose the total risk of Portfolios A, B and C are 49% ², 64%² and 100% ² respectively. The market price of risk is 8%. The Market Portfolio (M) has an expected return and a total risk of 11% and 100% respectively. (a) You want to form another Portfolio H by investing $7,000 in Portfolio A and $3,000 in Portfolio B. Compute the standard deviation of Portfolio H if the correlation coefficient between Portfolio A and Portfolio B is: i) perfectly positively correlated ii) uncorrelated iii) perfectly negatively correlated (b) If the expected return of Portfolio C is 9.4% and it is lying on the Securities Market Line, what is the beta of Portfolio C? State the answer in %². (c) Is Portfolio C a Market Portfolio as it has same level of total risk (i.e. 100% 2) as the Market Portfolio? Why or Why not?Assume you have an optimal risky portfolio with an expected return of 17% and a standard deviation of 34%, if the current risk free rate is 5% what is the optimal percentage to invest in ORP (y*)? Please write all percentages as decimals (for example write .242 instead of 24.2%). Use a risk aversion measure (A) of 2. Please use 5 decimal places in your responseAssume that you manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 20% and a standard deviation of 41%. The T-bill rate is 4% A client prefers to invest in your portfolio a proportion (y) that maximizes the expected return on the overall portfolio subject to the constraint that the overall portfolio's standard deviation will not exceed 30%. Required: a. What is the investment proportion, y? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Investment proportion y % b. What is the expected rate of return on the overall portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return %