A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds: a stock fund, a bond fund...

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A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds: a stock fund, a bond fund and a T-bill money market fund. The correlation between the stock and bond fund return is 0.15. The T-bill fund yields a sure return of 5.5%. The distributions of the risky funds are:

Expected return

Standard deviation

Stock fund

15%

32%

Bond fund

9%

23%

If you were to use only the above two risky (stock and bond) funds and still require an expected return of 12%, whats the standard deviation of such a portfolio?

A) 4.45%

B) 21.06%

C) 19.70%

D) 20.61%

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