Question 01:An investor places 30% of his funds in Security A and the balance in Security B. The expected returns on A a...
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Question 01:
An investor places 30% of his funds in Security A and the balance in Security B. The expected returns on A and B are 12% and 18%, respectively. The standard deviations of returns on A and B are 20% and 15% respectively.
Calculate the expected return on the portfolio.
Calculate the Variance of returns on the portfolio assuming that the
correlation between the returns on the two securities is:
1.00
0.7
0
- 0.7
Comment on your results in Part.b above.
Marks: (1+2+1)
Question 02:
An investor holds a portfolio that comprises of 20% stock A, 30% stock B and 50% stock C. The standard deviations of returns on Stocks A, B and C are 22%, 15% and 10%, respectively, and the correlation between returns on each pair of securities is 0.6. Prepare a variance-covariance matrix for these three securities and use the matrix to calculate the variance and standard deviation of returns for the portfolio.
Marks: (3)
Question 03:
The risk free rate of return is currently 8% and the market risk premium is estimated to be 6%. The expected returns and betas of four shares are as follows:
Share Expected Return (%) Beta
A 13.0 0.7
B 17.6 1.6
C 14.0 1.1
Identify that which shares are undervalued, overvalued or correctly valued based on the CAPM.