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Question (1) : You have saved $ 200,000 for retirement. The money is invested in a diversified portfolio of U.S.

stocks (X & Y), assume a two stock portfolio with 100,000 in (X) and 100,000 (Y) and you have the following information about 2 securities (X & Y): State of the economy Probability X Y Recession 0.25 -0.22 0.28 Average 0.50 0.20 0.00 Boom 0.25 0.60 -0.20 a. Calculate the expected rate of return on X & Y. b. Calculate the stand-alone risk ( ) of X & Y. c. Calculate the expected rate of return on portfolio. d. Calculate the portfolio risk ( ).

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