Ebeneezer Scrooge Jasper currently manages a $500,000 portfolio. He is expecting to receive an additional $250,000 from a new client. The existing portfolio has a required return of 10.75 percent. The risk-free rate is 4 percent and the return on the market is 9 percent. If Scrooge wants the required return on the new portfolio to be 11.5 percent, what should be the average beta for the new stocks added to the portfolio?
a. 1.50
b. 2.00
c. 1.67
d. 1.35
e. 1.80