You hold the positions in the following table. What is the beta of your portfolio? If you

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You hold the positions in the following table. What is the beta of your portfolio? If you expect the market to earn 12 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.5 percent, what is the required return of the portfolio?

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This problem can be solved two different and equivalent ways. Both ways require the weights of the stocks in the portfolio. In one method, compute the required return for each stock and then use the weights to form the portfolio required return. The other solution uses the weights to compute the portfolio beta. This portfolio beta is used to compute the portfolio required return. The following solution shows the portfolio beta approach.

Stocks
Stocks or shares are generally equity instruments that provide the largest source of raising funds in any public or private listed company's. The instruments are issued on a stock exchange from where a large number of general public who are willing...
Portfolio
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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Finance Applications and Theory

ISBN: 978-0077861681

3rd edition

Authors: Marcia Cornett, Troy Adair

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