Assume that as a U.S. investor, you decide to hold a portfolio with 80 percent invested in
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Assume that as a U.S. investor, you decide to hold a portfolio with 80 percent invested in the S&P 500 U.S. stock index and the remaining 20 percent in the MSCI Emerging Markets index. The expected return is 9.93 percent for the S&P 500 and 18.20 percent for the Emerging Markets index. The risk (standard deviation) is 16.21 percent for the S&P 500 and 33.11 percent for the Emerging Markets index. What will be the portfolio’s expected return and risk given that the covariance between the S&P 500 and the Emerging Markets index is 0.5 percent or 0.0050? Note that units for covariance and variance are written as %2 when not expressed as a fraction. These are units of measure like squared feet and the numbers themselves are not actually squared.
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Investments Principles Of Portfolio And Equity Analysis
ISBN: 9780470915806
1st Edition
Authors: Michael McMillan, Jerald E. Pinto, Wendy L. Pirie, Gerhard Van De Venter, Lawrence E. Kochard