Four of your best friends from college are now mutual fund managers (maybe you should have kept in touch after graduation). The risk-free rate was 2 percent and the S&P 500 market risk premium was 10 percent for 2019. Using the Capital Asset Pricing Model, provide the benchmark Security Market Line predicted return for each fund in 2019 and place them in the table below.

Fund Manager	2019 Performance	BETA	StdDev	Corr.	SML Predicted Return
Devo	8%	0.55	11%	25%
Grodge	11	0.70	7	50
MsMo	13	1.20	12	50
SpaceMan	18	1.60	10	80

a. Which of your friends has the fund with the highest market risk? The highest total risk?

Highest Market Risk _______

Highest Total Risk ______

b. Compared to the SML benchmark, which of your friends had the best performance? The worst?

Best Performance______

Worst Performance______

c.You have estimated that MsMo will provide a return of 12% for investors in 2020, while the risk-free rate is 3 percent and the S&P 500 market risk premium is 8.0 percent for 2020. Given these estimates, do you feel that MsMo will out-perform or under-perform the market benchmark? (Circle 0ne)

Out-Perform Under-Perform

Market Benchmark _________

d. What is the implied standard deviation of the returns for the Standard & Poor 500 (market return) used to compute the betas in the table above?

e. You have decided to invest 25% of your funds with each of your friends. What will be the beta of your investment portfolio adopting this strategy?

Beta ______