Reconsider the mutual fund manager in Problem 20. How could you mix a stock index mutual fund

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Reconsider the mutual fund manager in Problem 20. How could you mix a stock index mutual fund with a risk-free position in Treasury bills (or a money market mutual fund) to create a portfolio with the same risk as the manager's but with a higher expected rate of return? What is the rate of return on that portfolio?

In problem 20 A mutual fund manager expects her portfolio to earn a rate of return of 11 % this year. The beta of her portfolio is .8. If the rate of return available on risk-free assets is 4% and you expect the rate of return on the market portfolio to be 14%, what expected rate of return would you demand before you would be willing to invest in this mutual fund?

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A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-0077861629

8th edition

Authors: Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Alan Marcus

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