B-4 (10 Marks) Please consider each of the following parts independently. Part 1 (3 marks) The Money
Question:
B-4 (10 Marks)
Please consider each of the following parts independently.
Part 1 (3 marks)
The Money Tree Investment Fund has a total investment of $450 million in five stocks:
Stock Investment ($ Millions) Beta
1 130 0.4x
2 110 1.5x
3 70 3.0x
4 90 2.0x
5 50 1.0x
Required
a) What is the fund's overall Beta?
b) If the required return on the portfolio is 20.76% and the return on the market is 18%, what must be the risk-free rate?
Part 2 (4 marks)
The Money Tree Investment Fund is considering adding a new $30 million investment, White Inc. shares, to the list in Part 1. White Inc. has just paid a dividend, D0, of $1.50 per share, with an expected constant growth rate of 2%. Currently the market price is $88.00 per share. The firm's stock is twice as volatile as the market. The average market return is 8% and the yield on government securities is 3%. What is your recommendation? (Show supporting calculations.)
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Part 3 (3 marks)
A portfolio contains two assets. The first asset comprises 40 percent of the
portfolio and has a standard deviation of 0.1, and the other asset has a standard
deviation of 0.5.
If the correlation coefficient between the two assets is 0.2, what
is the portfolio's standard deviation?
What recommendation would you give a risk averse investor if the expected return on the portfolio is 12%? (Explain your answer.)
Managerial Accounting
ISBN: 9780073526706
12th Edition
Authors: Ray H. Garrison, Eric W. Noreen, Peter C. Brewer