Problem 7-9 A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term bond fund, and the third is a money market fund that provides a safe return of 7%. The characteristics of the risky funds are as follows: Stock fund (s) Bond fund (B) - Standard deviation Expected Return 19% 14 The correlation between the fund returns is 0.10. You require that your portfolio yield an expected return of 16%, and that it be efficient, that is, on the steepest feasible CAL. a. What is the standard deviation of your portfolio? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) |Money market fund Stocks Bonds b. What is the proportion invested in the money market fund and each of the two risky funds? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Proportion Invested Standard Deviation 31% 29 % % 196 96

A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term bond fund, and the third is a money market fund that provides a safe return of 7%. The characteristics of the risky funds are as follows: The correlation between the fund returns is 0.10 . You require that your portfolio yield an expected return of 16%, and that it be efficient, that is, on the steepest feasible CAL. Q. What is the standard deviation of your portfolio? (Round your answer to 2 declimal pleces.) b. What is the proportion invested in the money market fund and each of the two risky funds? (Round your answers to 2 declmal pleces.)