A portfolio that combines the risk-free asset and the market portfolio has an expected return of 6

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A portfolio that combines the risk-free asset and the market portfolio has an expected return of 6 percent and a standard deviation of 11 percent. The risk-free rate is 2.9 percent, and the expected return on the market portfolio is 12 percent. Assume the capital asset pricing model holds. What expected rate of return would a security earn if it had a .55 correlation with the market portfolio and a standard deviation of 50 percent?

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Corporate Finance Core Principles And Applications

ISBN: 9781260571127

6th Edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford Jordan

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