Suppose you have a portfolio that has $100 in stock A with a beta of 0.9, $400

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Suppose you have a portfolio that has $100 in stock A with a beta of 0.9, $400 in stock B with a beta of 1.2, and $300 in the risk-free asset. You have another $200 to invest. You wish to achieve a beta for your whole portfolio to be the same as the market beta. What is the beta of the added security? Give an example of a firm that may have such a beta.

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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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Introduction To Corporate Finance

ISBN: 9781118300763

3rd Edition

Authors: Laurence Booth, Sean Cleary

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