Question: The following are estimates for two stocks. Stock Expected Return Beta firm-specific Standard Deviation A (S) 0.16 (ER) 0.68 (B) 0.34 (SD) B (S) 0.18
The following are estimates for two stocks.
Stock
Expected Return
Beta
firm-specific Standard Deviation
A (S)
0.16 (ER)
0.68 (B)
0.34 (SD)
B (S)
0.18 (ER)
1.4 (B)
0.41 (SD)
The market index has a standard deviation of 0.19 and the risk-free rate is 0.04.
Suppose that we were to construct a portfolio with proportions:
Stock A 0.33
Stock B 0.45
The remaining proportion is invested in Tbills
Compute the nonsystematic standard deviation of theportfolio.
Round your answer to 4 decimal places. For example if your answer is 3.205%, then please write down 0.0321.
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