EXPECTED RETURNS Suppose you won the lottery and had two options: (1) receiving $0.5 million or (2) taking a gamble in which, at the flip of a coin, you receive $1 million if a head comes up but receive zero if a tail comes up.
l. The expected profit on the T-bond investment is $37,500. What is the expected dollar profit on the stock investment?
2. The expected rate of return on the T-bond investment is 7.5%. What is the expected rate of return on the stock investment?
3. Would you invest in the bond or the stock? Why?
4. Exactly how large would the expected profit (or the expected rate of return) have to be on the stock investment to make you invest in the stock, given the 7.5% return on the bond?
5. How might your decision be affected if, rather than buying one stock for $0.5 million, you could construct a portfolio consisting of 100 stocks with $5,000 invested in each? Each of these stocks has the same return characteristics as the one stock that is, a 50-50 chance of being worth zero or $11,300 at year-end. Would the correlation between returns on these stocks matter? Explain.
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