Assignment 1: Investment Portfolio analysis 10 points This assignment is concerned with applying the ideas and concepts related to building an investment portfolio. It is built on the basis of chapter five and six of the course. Therefore, each student must do the following: Extracting data representing the monthly adjusted closing prices for any two companies listed on Yahoo Finance, starting from 1/1/2019 until 30/6/2021 Calculate the monthly return for both companies Calculate the expected return for both companies Gradually put the relative weight of both companies Calculate the variance for each company Calculate the covariance of the portfolio Calculate the portfolio's correlation coefficient Calculate the expected return for the portfolio Calculate the variance for the portfolio Calculate market index return Calculate portfolio beta Calculate minimum variance for the portfolio Draw the curve of the portfolio Assignment 1: Investment Portfolio analysis 10 points This assignment is concerned with applying the ideas and concepts related to building an investment portfolio. It is built on the basis of chapter five and six of the course. Therefore, each student must do the following: Extracting data representing the monthly adjusted closing prices for any two companies listed on Yahoo Finance, starting from 1/1/2019 until 30/6/2021 Calculate the monthly return for both companies Calculate the expected return for both companies Gradually put the relative weight of both companies Calculate the variance for each company Calculate the covariance of the portfolio Calculate the portfolio's correlation coefficient Calculate the expected return for the portfolio Calculate the variance for the portfolio Calculate market index return Calculate portfolio beta Calculate minimum variance for the portfolio Draw the curve of the portfolio