Question: Consider an investment portfolio of $50,000 in stock A and $50,000 in stock B. The expected value of A is 9.5% and B is 6%. The variance of A is 13% and the variance of B is 8%. The covariance between A and B is 18.6%.
(a) Compute the portfolio's weights associated with stock A and stock B.
(b) Obtain the portfolio expected return.
(c) Find the variance of the portfolio.