portfolio theory

Calculate the expected return from the proposed portfolio of securities X and Y.

An investor has two investment opportunities in the shares of Company X and Company Y. The risk and return characteristics of the two securities are shown below:XYExpected Return12%22%Risk(Standard deviation)6%9%The investor plans to invest 70% of available funds in X and 30% in Y. The correlation coefficient between the returns of the two securities is -0.5.Required:a) […]

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