Your boss gives you your first assignment. It involves analyzing two Canadian Telecom companies Telus and Rogers. Telus stock is currently trading at sixty-five dollars per share. Economic forecasts show that price of Telus shares will be fifty-three dollars if there is a recession, seventy-three dollars if the economy is normal and eighty-five dollars if the economy is booming. The probability of a recession, normal and booming economy is twenty, sixty and twenty percent respectively. Due to the COVID pandemic, dividends had been suspended for Telus and as a result the beta for this company is 0.68.

On the other hand, Rogers Communication has continued paying its dividend and as such has an expected return of thirteen percent, a standard deviation of thirty-four percent and a beta of 0.45. The correlation between Telus and Rogers is 0.48.

By beginning the test, you affirm that you will not give or receive any unauthorized help and that all work will be your

own. You agree to abide by Yorkville's Academic Integrity Policy and you understand any violation of academic

integrity will be subject to the penalties outlined in the policy.

Finally, you are told that the market portfolio has a beta of 1 and a standard deviation of fourteen percent. The boss asks Billy for the following

(a) Use the Capital Asset Pricing model to determine the expected return and standard deviation of Telus stock.

(b) Building a portfolio of sixty percent investment in Telus and forty percent in Rogers communication what would the following be for this portfolio:

Expected return

Standard deviation

Beta for the portfolio

What would the Beta be for this portfolio if the investment was split into 80% Government T-Bills

(no risk) and 10% for Telus and 10% for Rogers Communication stock.

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