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You put half of your money in a stock portfolio that has an expected return of 14% and a standard deviation of 23%. You put the rest of your money in a risky bond portfolio that has an expected return of 6% and a standard deviation of 11.3%. The stock and bond portfolios have a correlation of 0.42. What is the standard deviation of the resulting portfolio?
| Stock | Bond | ||
| Expected return | 14.00% | 6.00% | |
| SD | 23.00% | 11.30% | |
| Coorelation co-efficient | 0.42 | ||
| weights are | |||
| Stock | 50.00% | ||
| Bond | 50.00% | ||
| Expected return | Weight | Weight * Expected return | |
| Stock | 14.00% | 50.00% | 7.00% | 
| Bond | 6.00% | 50.00% | 3.00% | 
| Total | 10.00% | ||
| So expected return is 10% | |||
| Calculation of standard deviation | |||
| The first step is to calculate the covariance: | |||
| COVAB = SDA × SDB × rAB, where rAB is the correlation coefficient between securities A and B. | |||
| Now, calculate the standard deviation for the portfolio: | |||
| [(SDA2 × WA2) + (SDB2 × WB2) + 2 (WA)(WB)(COVAB)]½ | |||
| Let's calcualte the co-variance | =23% * 11.3% * 0.42 | ||
| 0.010916 | |||
| Now lets calculate the SD | |||
| SD portfolio= | ((23%^2 * 50%^2)+(11.3%^2*50%^2)+(2*50%*50%*0.010916))^(0.5) | ||
| SD portfolio= | 14.79% |