A retired partner from a large brokerage firm has one million dollars available to invest in particular

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A retired partner from a large brokerage firm has one million dollars available to invest in particular stocks or bonds. Each investment’s annual rate of return depends on the state of the economy in the coming year. The file P06_71.xlsx contains the distribution of returns for these stocks and bonds as a function of the economy’s state in the coming year. As this file indicates, the returns from stocks and bonds in a fair economy are listed as X and Y. This investor wants to
allocate her one million dollars to maximize her expected value of the portfolio one year from now.
a. If X = Y = 15%, find the optimal investment strategy for this investor.
b. For which values of X (where 10% < X < 20%) and Y (where 12.5% < Y < 17.5%), if any, will this investor prefer to place all of her available funds in stocks? Use the same method as in part a for each combination of X and Y.

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...
Distribution
The word "distribution" has several meanings in the financial world, most of them pertaining to the payment of assets from a fund, account, or individual security to an investor or beneficiary. Retirement account distributions are among the most...
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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Data Analysis and Decision Making

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Authors: Christian Albright, Wayne Winston, Christopher Zappe

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