Consider the following covariances between securities:     Duke Microsoft Wal-Mart Duke 0.0568 -0.0193 0.0037 Microsoft -0.0193 0.2420 0.1277 Wal-Mart 0.0037 0.1277 0.1413 What is the variance on a portfolio that is made up of $6000 investments in Microsoft and a $4000 investment in Wal-Mart stock?

Suppose that there are many stocks in the security market and that the characteristics of stocks A and B are given as follows: Stock               expected return             standard deviation  A                             14%                                   6% B                             18                                      10 CORRELATION = -1   Suppose that it is possible to borrow at the risk-free rate, rf. What must be the value of the risk-free rate? (Hint: Think about constructing a risk-free portfolio from stocks A and B.) (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)

Finance The risk-free rate is 3.7 percent and the expected return on the market is 12.3 percent. Stock A has a beta of 1.1and an expected return of 13.1 percent. Stock B has a beta of .86 and an expected return of 11.4 percent. Arethese stocks correctly priced? Why or why not? Use E(Ri) = Rf + βi(E(RM) − Rf).

Assume the CAPM holds and consider stock X, which has a return variance of 0.09 and a correlation of 0.75 with the market portfolio. The market portfolio's Sharpe ratio is 0.30 and the the risk-free rate is 5%. (a) What is Stock X's expected return? (b) What proportion of Stock X's return volatility (i.e. standard deviation) is priced by the market? Explain why this number is less than 1.

Please help me find the variance on this 3 stock portfolio.

You are given the following information concerning three portfolios, the market portfolio, and the risk-free asset: Op 1.45 1.20 0.75 1.00 Portfolio: X Y Z Market Risk-free Rp 11.00% 10.00 8.10 10.40 5.20 Information ratio Op 33.00% 28.00 18.00 23.00 0 Assume that the tracking error of Portfolio X is 9.10 percent. What is the information ratio for Portfolio X? Note: A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 4 decimal places. 02148 0

Assume that using the Security Market Line (SML) the required rate of return (RA) on stock A is foundto be half of the required return (RB) on stock B. The risk-free rate (Rf) is one-fourth of the requiredreturn on A. Return on market portfolio is denoted by RM. Find the ratio of beta of A (A) to beta of B(B). d) Assume that the short-term risk-free rate is 3%, the market index S&P500 is expected to payreturns of 15% with the standard deviation equal to 20%. Asset A pays on average 5%, has standarddeviation equal to 20% and is NOT correlated with the S&P500. Asset B pays on average 8%, also hasstandard deviation equal to 20% and has correlation of 0.5 with the S&P500. Determine whetherasset A and B are overvalued or undervalued, and explain why. (Hint: Beta of asset i (??) =???????, where ??,?? are standard deviations of asset i and marketportfolio, ??? is the correlation between asset i and the market portfolio)Question 2. Foreign exchange marketsStatoil, the national…

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IBM AMZN E(R) 0.07 0.11 Standard Deviation0.10 0.18 Correlation0.45 Suppose you have the above data on IBM and Amazon, compute the expected return and the standard deviation of an equally weighted portfolio invested in the two securitiesis there a diversification benefit? Please show your work and round to at least 3 decimal places