Question

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 rate of 8%. The probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows:

	Expected Return			Standard Deviation
Stock fund (S)		19	%		32	%
Bond fund (B)		12			15

The correlation between the fund returns is 0.11.

a-1. What are the investment proportions in the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.)

Portfolio invested in the stock
Portfolio invested in the bond

a-2. What is the expected value and standard deviation of its rate of return? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.)

Rate of Return
Expected return
Standard deviation

Answer 1