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Question 1: R&r
Stock J |
Dividends |
Stock Price |
Year 1 |
- |
$40.00 |
Year 2 |
$2.00 |
$49.50 |
Year 3 |
$2.20 |
$53.20 |
Year 4 |
$2.40 |
$52.75 |
Year 5 |
$2.60 |
$55.80 |
Stock Fillion |
Dividends |
Stock Price |
Year 1 |
- |
$45.00 |
Year 2 |
$3.10 |
$51.05 |
Year 3 |
$3.20 |
$58.95 |
Year 4 |
$3.90 |
$57.92 |
Year 5 |
$4.05 |
$50.10 |
a) Find the following for Fillion and Jessica and a portfolio with 60% invested in Fillion and 40% in Jessica:
- Variance
- Standard Deviation
- Average Variance
- Average Standard Deviation
Find E(r).
b) Repeat (a) with 50% invested in each stock. Do we guess that the correlation coefficient will be closer to -0.95, 0.0, or 0.95?
c) If stocks are added at random, which of the following is true?
- Eventually portfolio variance will be reduced to 0
- Eventually portfolio variance will be reduced to a non-zero number and won’t decrease further
- Portfolio variance will stay constant
- Portfolio variance will increase with each added stock