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- Your client has $102,000 invested in stock A. She would like to build a two-stock portfolio by investing another $102,000 in either stock B or C. She wants a portfolio with an expected return of at least 14.0% and as low a risk as possible, but the standard deviation must be no more than 40%. What do you advise her to do, and what will be the portfolio expected return and standard deviation? Expected Return Standard Deviation Correlation with A A B с 15% 13% 13% 47% 40% 40% Part 1 of 5 The expected return of the portfolio with stock B is 1.00 0.11 0.32 %. (Round to one decimal place.)Your client has $95,000 invested in stock A. She would like to build a two-stock portfolio by investing another $95,000 in either stock B or C. She wants a portfolio with an expected return of at least 14.5% and as low a risk as possible, but the standard deviation must be no more than 40%. What do you advise her to do, and what will be the portfolio expected return and standard deviation? Expected Return Standard Deviation Correlation with A A 17% 47% 1.00 В 12% 38% 0.14 C 12% 38% 0.27 The expected return of the portfolio with stock B is %. (Round to one decimal place.) The expected return of the portfolio with stock C is %. (Round to one decimal place.) The standard deviation of the portfolio with stock B is %. (Round to one decimal place.) The standard deviation of the portfolio with stock C is %. (Round to one decimal place.) (Select from the drop-down menu.) You would advise your client to choose stock B because it will produce the portfolio with the lower standard deviation.Your client has $95,000 invested in stock A. She would like to build a two-stock portfolio by investing another $95,000 in either stock B or C. She wants a portfolio with an expected return of at least 14.5% and as low a risk as possible, but the standard deviation must be no more than 40%. What do you advise her to do, and what will be the portfolio expected return and standard deviation? Expected Return Standard Deviation Correlation with A A 17% 47% 1.00 12% 38% 0.14 12% 38% 0.27 The expected return of the portfolio with stock B is %. (Round to one decimal place.) The expected return of the portfolio with stock C is %. (Round to one decimal place.) The standard deviation of the portfolio with stock B is %. (Round to one decimal place.) The standard deviation of the portfolio with stock C is %. (Round to one decimal place.) (Select from the drop-down menu.) You would advise your client to choose because it will produce the portfolio with the lower standard deviation. stock B stock C
- Your client has $103,000 invested in stock A. She would like to build a two-stock portfolio by investing another $103,000 in either stock B or C. She wants a portfolio with an expected return of at least 15.0% and as low a risk as possible, but the standard deviation must be no more than 40%. What do you advise her to do, and what will be the portfolio expected return and standard deviation? Expected Return Standard Deviation Correlation with A A 16% 46% 1.00 B 14% 38% 0.18 C 14% 38% 0.28 The expected return of the portfolio with stock B is %. (Round to one decimal place.)Your client has $100,000 invested in stock A. She would like to build a two-stock portfolio by investing another $100,000 in either stock B or C. She wants a portfolio with an expected return of at least 15.0% and as low a risk as possible, but the standard deviation must be no more than 40%. What do you advise her to do, and what will be the portfolio expected return and standard deviation? Expected Return Standard Deviation Correlation with A A (BC 16% 14% 14% 45% 38% 38% 1.00 0.18 0.31 The expected return of the portfolio with stock B is ☐ %. (Round to one decimal place.)Give typing answer with explanation and conclusion Assume that your client would prefer to invest her entire wealth into a portfolio with an annual risk premium of 6% and a standard deviation of 12%. You have constructed a risky portfolio with an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 15%. T-Bills are currently yielding 4%. What is the optimal allocation, y, to the risky portfolio given your client's risk preferences? What is the expected return and standard deviation on your client's optimal complete portfolio?
- Your client has $99,000 invested in stock A. She would like to build a two-stock portfolio by investing another $99,000 in either stock B or C. She wants a portfolio with an expected return of at least 13.5% and as low a risk as possible, but the standard deviation must be no more than 40%. What do you advise her to do, and what will be the portfolio expected return and standard deviation? Expected Return A B с 15% 12% 12% Standard Deviation 47% 40% 40% Correlation with A 1.00 0.16 0.31An investor wishes to add new stocks to her portfolio. She has information about twoassets, Stock A and Stock B. Stock A has a beta of 1.25 and an expected return of 20%.Stock B has a beta of 0.9 and expected return of 15%. The risk-free rate is 4.5% and themarket risk premium is 15%.Which of these stocks, if any, would you advise the investor to purchase?You want your portfolio beta to be 1.30. Currently, your portfolio consists of $100 invested in stock A with a beta of 1.4 and $300 in stock B with a beta of .6. You have another $400 to invest and want to divide it between an asset with a beta of 1.8 and a risk-free asset. How much should you invest in the risk-free asset?
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