A hedge fund has created a portfolio using just two stocks. It has shorted $35,000,000 worth of

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A hedge fund has created a portfolio using just two stocks. It has shorted $35,000,000 worth of Oracle stock and has purchased $85,000,000 of Intel stock. The correlation between Oracle€™s and Intel€™s returns is 0.65. The expected returns and standard deviations of the two stocks are given in the table below:

A hedge fund has created a portfolio using just two

a. What is the expected return of the hedge fund€™s portfolio?
b.
What is the standard deviation of the hedge fund€™sportfolio?

Stocks
Stocks or shares are generally equity instruments that provide the largest source of raising funds in any public or private listed company's. The instruments are issued on a stock exchange from where a large number of general public who are willing...
Portfolio
A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-0133097894

3rd edition

Authors: Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo

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