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Question 1: R&r

Stock J

Dividends

Stock Price

Year 1

-

$40.00

Year 2

$2.00

$49.50

Year 3

$2.20

$53.20

Year 4

$2.40

$52.75

Year 5

$2.60

$55.80

Stock Fillion

Dividends

Stock Price

Year 1

-

$45.00

Year 2

$3.10

$51.05

Year 3

$3.20

$58.95

Year 4

$3.90

$57.92

Year 5

$4.05

$50.10

a) Find the following for Fillion and Jessica and a portfolio with 60% invested in Fillion and 40% in Jessica:

- Variance

- Standard Deviation

- Average Variance

- Average Standard Deviation

Find E(r).

b) Repeat (a) with 50% invested in each stock. Do we guess that the correlation coefficient will be closer to -0.95, 0.0, or 0.95?

c) If stocks are added at random, which of the following is true?

- Eventually portfolio variance will be reduced to 0

- Eventually portfolio variance will be reduced to a non-zero number and wont decrease further

- Portfolio variance will stay constant

- Portfolio variance will increase with each added stock

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