5.1. State your portfolio objectives. Then construct a 10-stock portfolio that you feel is consistent with your objectives. (Use companies that have been public for at least 5 years.) Obtain annual dividend and price date for each of the past 5 years.

Calculate the historical return for each stock for each year

Using your findings in part a, calculate the historical portfolio return for each of the 5 years.

Use your findings in part b to calculate the average portfolio return over the 5 years.

Use your findings in part b and c to find the standard deviation of the portfolios returns over the 5-year period.

Use the historical average return from part c and the standard deviation from part d to evaluate the portfolios return and risk in light of your stated portfolio objectives.

Use these 10 stocks:

CSL

NAB

MQG

BHP

WDS

TLS

JBH

LYC

GMG

XRO