A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a rate of 8%. The probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows:
Stock fund (S) expected return=18 % standard dev=35 %
Bond fund (B) expected return= 15% standar dev= 20%
The correlation between the fund returns is 0.12. a-1. What are the investment proportions in the minimum-variance portfolio of the two risky funds. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.)
portfolio invested in stock_____
portfolio invested in bond_____
a-2. What is the expected value and standard deviation of its rate of return? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as decimals rounded to 4 places.)
expected return_____
standard deviation______