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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
Expected Return | Standard Deviation | |
---|---|---|
Stock fund (S) | 15% | 32% |
Bond fund (B) | 9% | 23% |
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.15.
What is the expected return and standard deviation for the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds?
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