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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 bond fund, and the third is a money market fund that provides a safe return of 8%. The characteristics of the risky funds are as follows:
Expected Return | Standard Deviation | ||||||
Stock fund (S) | 17 | % | 30 | % | |||
Bond fund (B) | 11 | 22 | |||||
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.10.
a-1. What are the investment proportions in the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.)
Portfolio invested in stock | |
Portfolio invested in bond |
a-2. What are the expected value and standard deviation of its rate of return? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.)
Rate of return | |
Expected return | |
Standard deviation |
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