Consider the following information

The correlation coefficient between the returns of the two companies is 0.85. Mrs. Clinton has all of her wealth invested in Happy Birds shares. She wishes to diversify her portfolio by redistributing her wealth, such as 35% being invested in Happy Bird shares and the rest in Quick Solutions shares.

(a) What will be the expected return of the new portfolio?

(b) What will be the standard deviation of returns for the new portfolio?

(c) After constructing the portfolio and reporting the results to Mrs. Clinton, she is quite upset, saying, I thought the whole purpose of diversification was to reduce risk? Yet you have just told me that the variability of my portfolio has actually increased from what it was when I invested only in Happy Bird

Provide a response to your client that demonstrates that the new portfolio does or does not reflect the benefits of diversification. You must show all necessary calculations.