1. A portfolio has 60% investment weight in XXX and the rest 40% investment weight in YYY. XXX has the standard deviation of 27%; YYY has the standard deviation of 17%. XXX and YYY have the correlation coefficient of -0.5. What is this portfolio’s standard deviation?
2. Binck, a Dutch electronics conglomerate, has operations in three foreign countries. Its intra- affiliate transactions during the current week generate payments depicted in the following table. Values represent EUR millions. From To Parent Brazil China Russia Parent 15 40 30 Brazil 20 20 10 China 60 30 20 Russia 25 15 10 If you apply multilateral netting, what is the NET flow for the parent? -20 40 0 -10 Type: M