In: Accounting
You have a portfolio with a standard deviation of
30 %30%
and an expected return of
17 %17%.
You are considering adding one of the two stocks in the following table. If after adding the stock you will have
20 %20%
of your money in the new stock and
80 %80%
of your money in your existing portfolio, which one should you add?
| 
 Expected Return  | 
 Standard Deviation  | 
 Correlation with Your Portfolio's Returns  | 
|
| 
 Stock A  | 
 1616 %  | 
 2121 %  | 
 0.20.2  | 
| 
 Stock B  | 
 1616 %  | 
 1818 %  | 
 0.70.7  | 
Standard deviation of the portfolio with stock A is
25.18 %.
(Round to two decimal places.)Standard deviation of the portfolio with stock B is
26.64 %.
(Round to two decimal places.)