Assume Stocks A and B have the following characteristics: The covariance between the returns on the two

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Assume Stocks A and B have the following characteristics:

Assume Stocks A and B have the following characteristics:

The covariance between the returns on the two stocks is .001.
a. Suppose an investor holds a portfolio consisting of only Stock A and Stock B. Find the portfolio weights, X A and X B, such that the variance of her portfolio is minimized.
b. What is the expected return on the minimum variance portfolio?
c. If the covariance between the returns on the two stocks is 2.05, what are the minimum variance weights?
d. What is the variance of the portfolio in part(c)?

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Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-0077861759

10th edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe

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