1. You are a portfolio manager
with $10 million in stocks. You like the stocks you own, but the
portfolio beta is 1.2 and you are concerned about a market decline.
Your investors expect you to be “fully invested”, so you do not
want to eliminate risk entirely. You decide that you would like to
reduce the portfolio’s beta using futures, but only for the next 3
months. You know that the spot S&P index is at 1900. The
dividend...