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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 5.9%. The probability distributions of
the risky funds are:
Expected Return | Standard Deviation | |
Stock fund (S) | 20% | 49% |
Bond fund (B) | 9% | 43% |
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.0721.
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the
minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds?