Portfolio return and standard deviation Personal Finance Problem Jamie Wong is thinking of building an investment portfolio containing two stocks, L and M. Stock L will represent 70% of the dollar value of the portfolio, and stock M will account for the other 30%. The historical returns over the next 6 years, 2013-2018, for each of these stocks are shown in the following table: a. Calculate the actual portfolio return, rp, for each of the 6 years. b. Calculate the expected value of portfolio returns, lp, over the 6-year period. c. Calculate the standard deviation of expected portfolio returns, Opp, over the 6-year period. d. How would you characterize the correlation of returns of the two stocks L and M? e. Discuss any benefits of diversification achieved by Jamie through creation of the portfolio. Data table (Click on the icon here in order to copy the contents of the data table below into a spreadsheet.) Expected return Year Stock L Stock M 2013 14% 22% 2014 15% 21% 2015 16% 20% 2016 18% 19% 2017 19% 18% 2018 20% 17%