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You are expecting either a recession or steady growth next year.
Recession has a 31% probability of happening. In steady growth,
stock ABC returns 11.25% and stock XYZ returns 8.25%. In a
recession, stock ABC returns -5.90% and stock XYZ returns -3.70%.
You are going to put together a portfolio of these two stocks with
positive portfolio weight in each and allocate 49% of the portfolio
to ABC with the remainder to XYZ. What is the variance of the
portfolio?
options: 0.00427
0.00438
0.00450
0.00461
0.00472