Question

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 4.7%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are:

	Expected Return	Standard Deviation
Stock fund (S)	17%	37%
Bond fund (B)	8%	31%

The correlation between the fund returns is 0.1065.

What is the Sharpe ratio of the best feasible CAL?

PLEASE DO NOT ROUND ANY NUMBERS UNTIL FINAL ANSWER OR ELSE IT WILL BE INCORRECT.

Answer 1

To find the fraction of wealth to invest in Stock fund that will result in the risky portfolio with maximum Sharpe ratio the following formula to determine the weight of Stock fund in risky portfolio should be used

	Where
Stock fund	E[R(d)]=	17.00%
Bond fund	E[R(e)]=	8.00%
Stock fund	Stdev[R(d)]=	37.00%
Bond fund	Stdev[R(e)]=	31.00%
	Var[R(d)]=	0.13690
	Var[R(e)]=	0.09610
T bill	Rf=	4.70%
Correl	Corr(Re,Rd)=	0.1065
Covar	Cov(Re,Rd)=	0.0122
Stock fund	Therefore W(*d)=	0.7911
Bond fund	W(*e)=(1-W(*d))=	0.2089
	Expected return of risky portfolio=	15.12%
	Risky portfolio std dev=	30.64%
Sharpe ratio=	(Port. Exp. Return-Risk free rate)/(Port. Std. Dev)		=(0.151197-0.047)/0.30644	=0.340024
Where
Var = std dev^2
Covariance = Correlation* Std dev (r)*Std dev (d)
Expected return of the risky portfolio = E[R(d)]*W(*d)+E[R(e)]*W(*e)
Risky portfolio standard deviation =( w2A*σ2(RA)+w2B*σ2(RB)+2*(wA)*(wB)*Cor(RA,RB)*σ(RA)*σ(RB))^0.5