3. Suppose the portfolio of a large institutional investor 'Animal has a beta of 1.25, and...
Suppose the portfolio of a large institutional investor ‘Animal’ has a beta of 1.25, and the standard deviation of the rate of return on its portfolio is 15 percent and its expected rate of return is 15 percent. The portfolio of another institutional investor ‘Beast’ has a beta of 0.75. The market portfolio may be expressed as a portfolio comprising the portfolios of Animal and Beast. Suppose there is a firm called ‘Cunning corporation’, whose stock’s beta is 2 and...
Suppose a large institutional investor Alliance’s portfolio has a beta of 0.5. Another institutional investor Best’s portfolio has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 15 percent. Both portfolios have the same Sharpe ratio of 0.6, and the market portfolio can be described as a portfolio comprising these two with equal weights. Suppose there is a firm called Cunning corporation, whose stock’s beta is 2 and it can borrow at the risk free rate. Cunning’s equity...
Suppose the portfolio of a large institutional investor ‘Ace’ has a beta of 1.5, and the standard deviation of the rate of return on its portfolio is 15 percent. The portfolio of another institutional investor ‘Yankee’ has a beta of 0.7. The market portfolio may be expressed as a portfolio comprising the portfolios of Ace and Yankee, and its Sharpe ratio is 0.8 Suppose there is a firm called ‘Rusty Steel’, whose stock’s beta is 2 and it can borrow...
2. A firm ‘Kappa Industries’ is a very young business, which is growing rapidly and to which intangible assets are very important. In contrast, another firm ‘Gorgeous Food’, whose business is profitable and stable, but has limited growth opportunities and most of its assets are tangible. With this setup, answer the following questions. a) Assuming that the predictions of the pecking order theory hold, which firm should have a higher payout ratio? Explain concisely why. b) Assuming that the predictions...
A mutual fund manager, Sally Spartan, has a $24.0 million portfolio with a beta of 1.25. The risk-free rate is 3.50%, and the market risk premium is 7.00%. The manager expects to receive an additional $16.0 million which she plans to invest in additional stocks. After investing the additional funds, the total portfolio will equal $40.0 million. Sally wants the final $40 million dollar fund's required and expected return to be 15.0%. What must the average beta of the new...
4. Investor equilibrium The following graph shows the set of portfolio opportunities for a multiasset case. The point RF corresponds to a risk-free asset, the red curve BME is the efficient frontier, the shaded area under the efficient frontier represents the feasible set of portfolios of risky assets, and the yellow curves II and I2 are indifference curves for a particular investor. EXPECTED RATE OF RETURN (Percent) 10 RISK (Portfolio's standard deviation) The points on the line PRF MZ represent:...
(LGI0-3) 10-22 Portfolio Beta You own $7,000 of Human Genome stock that has a beta of 3.5. You also own $8,000 of Frozen Food Express (beta = 1.6) and $10,000 of Molecular Devices (beta 0.4). What is the beta of your portfolio? (LG10-3) 10-28 Portfolio Beta and Required Return You hold the positions in the following table. What is the beta of your portfolio? If you expect the market to earn 12 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.5 percent,...
An investor has constructed a portfolio with the following investments: ASSET: DOLLARS INVESTED: BETA: Apple $15,000.00 1.40 Kelloggs $5,000.00 0.20 S&P 500 Index $20,000.00 1.00 The current risk free rate in the economy is 4.00%, while the market portfolio risk premium is 6.00%. What is the beta for this portfolio? Submit Answer format: Number: Round to: 2 decimal places. #12 An investor has constructed a portfolio with the following investments: ASSET: DOLLARS INVESTED: BETA: Apple $15,000.00 1.40 Kelloggs $5,000.00 0.20...
Question 3 (total of 20 marks): An investor holds a portfolio comprising three assets (or stocks) A, B and C. Refer to the below tables to answer the questions that follow. Assume that returns are effective annual rates: Variables Stock A Stock B Stock C 33% 40% 25% Stock return standard deviation 0.25 $ 55,000.00 0.33 35,000.00 0.22 10,000.00 Investment $ $ Assume the following information holds: Correlation coefficient of the returns between A & B 0.10 Correlation coefficient of...
Subject: PORTFOLIO BETA A mutual fund manager has a $20 million portfolio with a beta of 0.75. The risk-free rate is 4.00%, and the market risk premium is 5.0%. The manager expects to receive an additional $5 million, which she plans to invest in a number of stocks. After investing the additional funds, she wants the fund's required return to be 19%. What should be the average beta of the new stocks added to the portfolio? Do not round intermediate...