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Kazakh-British Technical University | Business School

Discipline: “Financial Risk Management”


Semester: Spring 2023
Homework 1
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ID:______________________________________________

Task 1: You have two portfolios: Portfolio A and Portfolio B:


Weights Return Standard Correlation
deviation
Portfolio A 0.65 11% 0.12
Portfolio B 0.35 25% 0.15
Correlation -0.2

1. Calculate expected return of the combined portfolio.

2. Calculate standard deviation of the combined portfolio.

Task 2: What is Credit Default Swap? (use your own language)

Task 3: From yahoo finance dowload daily prices of apple from January 1 2022 to December
31 2022. Using closing day prices, calculate expected return and standard deviation. (Use excel)

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