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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 5.7%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are:
Expected Return | Standard Deviation | |
Stock fund (S) | 18% | 47% |
Bond fund (B) | 7% | 41% |
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.0317.
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds?
✓ Expected return of portfolio is 11.73%
✓ Standard deviation of portfolio is 31.38%