14. Suppose a trader is trying to hedge equity portfolio of beta 1.8 using futures on stock market index. His portfolio is worth $10M today. Assume that the index futures price is $5,000 and each contract is written on 200 times the index. If he take 5 short positions in the stock market index futures, what would be the beta of hedge portfolio? A. O B. -0.3 C. 1 D. 1.2 E. 1.3 15. Assume the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) holds. The expected annual return of stock A is 6%. The annual risk-free rate was 5% and the expected annual return of the market was 7%. If the standard deviation of annual return of stock A was 15% and the standard deviation of annual return of the market was 10%, what is the correlation between annual returns of stock A and the market? A. 0.5 B. 0.33 C. 0.66 D. -0.66 E. 1