Question

1-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 4.3%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are:

    

	Expected Return	Standard Deviation
Stock fund (S)	13%	34%
Bond fund (B)	6%	27%

    

The correlation between the fund returns is .0630.

    

What is the reward-to-volatility ratio of the best feasible CAL? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 4 decimal places.)

    

Reward-to-volatility ratio

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2-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 4.1%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are:

   

	Expected Return		Standard Deviation
Stock fund (S)	11	%	33	%
Bond fund (B)	8	%	25	%

   

The correlation between the fund returns is .1560.

Suppose now that your portfolio must yield an expected return of 9% and be efficient, that is, on the best feasible CAL.

  

a.	What is the standard deviation of your portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

   

Standard deviation

%

    

b-1.	What is the proportion invested in the T-bill fund? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

   

Proportion invested in the T-bill fund

%

   

b-2.	What is the proportion invested in each of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

	Proportion Invested
Stocks	%
Bonds	%

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3-Suppose that many stocks are traded in the market and that it is possible to borrow at the risk-free rate, rƒ. The characteristics of two of the stocks are as follows:

Stock	Expected Return			Standard Deviation
A		8	%		40	%
B		12	%		60	%
Correlation = –1

a.	Calculate the expected rate of return on this risk-free portfolio? (Hint: Can a particular stock portfolio be substituted for the risk-free asset?) (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Rate of return

%

b.	Could the equilibrium rƒ be greater than 9.60%?
	Yes No

Answer 1

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