Investors can allocate their wealth among three assets: one risk - free asset and two risky assets
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Investors can allocate their wealth among three assets: one riskfree asset and two risky assets Stock A and Stock B Both Investors and are rational, meanvariance optimizers and they have the same beliefs about the expected returns and risks of stocks A and B as shown in the table below. The correlation between stocks A and B is The return of the riskfree asset is
Investor allocates of his wealth in the riskfree asset, in Stock A and in Stock B Investor has higher risk aversion than Investor so she allocates of her wealth in the riskfree asset and the remaining in a combination of stocks A and B Both investors think their asset allocation decisions maximize their expected utility.
Expected Return: A : B :
Standard Deviation: A: B :
Please answer the following questions based on the information above.
What percentage of Investor s total wealth is invested in Stock AHint: recall that if investors are rational and have the same information about risky assets, they will end up having the same risky portfolio.
Calculate the expected return and standard deviation of Investor s complete portfolio including the riskfree asset
If Investor s utility function is quadratic, ie U ErAs please estimate Investor s coefficient of risk aversion A
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Fundamentals of corporate finance
ISBN: 978-0078034633
10th edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Bradford Jordan
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