Question: A fund manager manages two portfolios, A and B . The individual portfolios have expected returns of E [ r A ] = 6 .

A fund manager manages two portfolios, A and B. The individual portfolios have expected returns of E[rA]=6.%,E[rB]=10.%(not excess return!) and standard deviations of A=10.%,B=12.%. T-bills earn a constant 4%.
a) Find the Sharpe ratios of both portfolios and draw the Capital Allocation Line for each.
b) The manager wishes to form one instead of two portfolios. They are constructing a new optimal risky portfolio from A and B, but wants to know the weights. To achieve this, they use the expected excess returns of A and B,E[RA],E[RB], their standard deviations A,B, and their covariance Cov(RA,RB) to assign weights according to:
wA=E[RA]B2-E[RB]Cov(RA,RB)E[RA]B2+E[RB]A2-(E[RA]+E[RB])Cov(RA,RB)
wB=1-wA.
Determine the weights wA and wB of the merged portfolio. The correlation between portfolios A and B is 0.3.(Hint: Compute the covariance from the correlation first.)
c) A client of the fund manager desires their investment to have a standard deviation of 12.%. Determine their capital allocation into the updated optimal risky portfolio and T-bills.
 A fund manager manages two portfolios, A and B. The individual

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