Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are: Expected Return Standard Deviation 34% 25% Stock fund (S) Bond fund (B) 17% 11% The correlation between the fund returns is 0.15. Required: What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Expected return Standard deviation % %

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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 government
and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability
distributions of the risky funds are:
Expected Return Standard Deviation
17%
34%
25%
Stock fund (S)
Bond fund (B)
11%
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.15.
Required:
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round
intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Expected return
Standard deviation
%
%
Transcribed Image Text:Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are: Expected Return Standard Deviation 17% 34% 25% Stock fund (S) Bond fund (B) 11% The correlation between the fund returns is 0.15. Required: What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Expected return Standard deviation % %
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