You manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 12% and a standard deviation of 36%. The T-bill rate is 3%. Stock A 27% Stock B 35% Stock C 38% Suppose that your client decides to invest in your portfolio a proportion y of the total investment budget so that the overall portfolio will have an expected rate of return of 10%. Required: What is the proportion y? What are your client’s investment proportions in your three stocks and the T-bill fund? What is the standard deviation of the rate of return on your client’s portfolio?

An investor is forming a portfolio by investing $50,000 in stock A which has a beta of 2.40, and $50,000 in stock B which has a beta of 0.60. The return on the market is equal to 8% and treasure bonds have a yield of 3% (rRF). What’s the portfolio beta?     0.60     1.30     1.50     1.80  Using the information in Question 41, calculate the required rate of return on the investor’s portfolio     11.0%     15.0%     12.0%     10.5% A retail store is offering a diamond ring for sale for 36 months at $128 per month. The retail price of the ring is $4,000. What is the interest rate on this offer?     9.43%     11.20%     11.98%     12.11%

Assume that you manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 17% and a standard deviation of 27%. The T-bill rate is 7%. Your risky portfolio includes the following investments in the given proportions: Stock A Stock B Stock C 27% 33 40 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 15%. Required: a. What is the proportion y? (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.) Proportion y 0.8 X %

You manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 14% and a standard deviation of 30%. The T-bill rate is 2%. Your client chooses to invest 65% of a portfolio in your fund and 35% in a T-bill money market fund. What is the reward-to-volatility (Sharpe) ratio (S) of your risky portfolio? Your client's? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 4 decimal places. Your reward-to-volatility (Sharpe) ratio Client's reward-to-volatility (Sharpe) ratio

There are three stocks, A, B, and C, with the following expected return, volatility, and correlation data. You are asked to generate a mean-variance portfolio, the expected return of which should be no less than 8%. What’s your optimal allocation (portfolio weights) for those three stocks?

Question 1: Assume that you manage a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 17% and a standard deviation of 27%. The T-bill rate is 7%. Your client chooses to invest 70% of a portfolio in your fund and 30% in a T-bill money market fund. Stock A Stock B Stock C 1. Calculate the client expected return on the complete portfolio 2. Calculate the reward-to-variability ratio (Sharpe ratio): Part B A three-asset portfolio has the following characteristics: Expected Return Asset X Y Z 15% 10 6 Standard Deviation What is the expected return on this three-asset portfolio? 27% 33% 40% 22% 8 3 Weight 0.50 0.40 0.10

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 chooses to invest 50% of a portfolio in your fund and 50% in a T-bill money market fund. Suppose that your risky portfolio includes the following investments in the given proportions: Stock A Stock B Stock C 33 % 32 % 35 % What are the investment proportions of your client's overall portfolio, including the position in T-bills? (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.) T-Bills Stock A Stock B Stock C Investment Proportions % % % %

An investor can design a risky portfolio based on two stocks, A and B. Stock A has an expected return of 15% and a standard deviation of return of 16.0%. Stock B has an expected return of 11% and a standard deviation of return of 4%. The correlation coefficient between the returns of A and B is 0.50. The risk-free rate of return is 7%. The proportion of the optimal risky portfolio that should be invested in stock A is __________.

You decide to invest in a portfolio consisting of 15 percent Stock X, 51 percent Stock Y, and the remainder in Stock Z. Based on the following information, what is the standard deviation of your portfolio?  State of Economy Probability of State Return if State Occurs of Economy Stock X Stock Y Stock Z Normal   .77     10.50%     3.90%     12.90%   Boom   .23     17.80%     25.80%     17.30%       Multiple Choice   5.79%    2.51%    3.35%   8.44%   7.24%

You own a portfolio that is 22 percent invested in Stock X, 37 percent in Stock Y, and 41 percent in Stock Z. The expected returns on these three stocks are 12 percent, 15 percent, and 17 percent, respectively. What is the expected return on the portfolio? Expected return _________%