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A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. Thefirst is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government andcorporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fundthat yields a sure rate of 5.9%. The probability distributions ofthe risky funds are:

  

Expected ReturnStandard Deviation
   Stock fund (S)20%        49%         
   Bond fund (B)9%        43%         

  

The correlation between the fund returns is .0721.

  

What is the expected return and standard deviation for theminimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds? (Do notround intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimalplaces.)

  

  Expected return%
  Standard deviation%

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