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Hey Chegg, I need just your help with the tangency portfolio below. A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a
Hey Chegg, I need just your help with the tangency portfolio below.
A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are:
Expected Return | Standard Deviation |
|
Stock fund (S) | 15% | 32% |
Bond fund (B) | 9 | 23 |
The correlation between the fund returns is .15
1.Tabulate and draw the investment opportunity set of the two risky funds. Use investment proportions for the stock fund of 0% to 100% in increments of 20%. What expected return and standard deviation does your graph show for the minimum-variance portfolio?
The parameters of the opportunity set are:
E (rs) = 15%, E (rB) = 9%, (Standard Deviation) STDS = 32%, STDB = 23%, coefficient correlation (p) = 0.15, rf = 5.5%
From the standard deviations and the correlation coefficient, we generate the covariance matrix [note that Cov(rs, rB) = pSTDSSTDB]:
| Bond | Stocks |
Bonds | STDB * STDB | p * STDB * STDS |
Stocks | p * STDB * STDS | STDS * STDS
|
| Bond | Stocks |
Bonds | 529.0(23^2) | (.15 x 32 x 23) = 110.4 |
Stocks | 110.4 | 1024.0 (32^2) |
The minimum-variance portfolio proportions are:
WMin(S) = STDB2 - Cov(rs,rB) / STDs2 + STDB2 - 2Cov(rs,rB)
WMin(S) = 232 - .15 x 23 x 32 / 322 + 232 - 2(.15 x 23 x 32)
WMin(S) = 529 - 110.4 / 1,024 + 529 - (2 x 110.4) = .3142
WMin(B) = 1 WMin(S) => 1 - .3142 = .6858
The mean and standard deviation of the minimum variance portfolio are:
E(rMin) = (.3142 x 15%) + (.6858 x 9%) = 10.89%
STDMin= [WS2 * STDS2 + WB2 * STDB2 + 2 * WS * WB * Cov(rS, rB)]1/2
STDMin = [(.31422 * 1024) + (.68582 * 529) + (2 * .3142 * .6858 * 110.4)]1/2
STDMin = 19.94%
Example for 20% in stock and 80% in bond:
E(rMin) = (.20 x 15%) + (.80 x 9%)
E(rMin) = (0.20 x 0.15) + (0.80 x 0.09)
E(rMin) = 0.03 + 0.072 = 0.102 x 100 = 10.2%
STDMin2= [WS2 * STDS2 + WB2 * STDB2 + 2 * WS * WB * Cov(rS, rB)]1/2
= [(.202 x 322) + (.802 x 232) + (2 x .2 x .8 x .15 x 32 x 23)]
= 40.96 + 338.56 + 35.33 = 414.85
STDMin= Square Root of 414.85 = 20.37%
% in stocks | % in bonds | Exp. Return | Std. dev. | Sharpe Ratio | |
0.0000 | 1.0000 | 0.0900 | 0.2300 | 0.1522 | |
0.2000 | 0.8000 | 0.1020 | 0.2037 | 0.2308 | |
0.3142 | 0.6858 | 0.1089 | 0.1994 | 0.2701 | Minimum Variance Portfolio |
0.4000 | 0.6000 | 0.1140 | 0.2018 | 0.2924 | |
0.6000 | 0.4000 | 0.1260 | 0.2250 | 0.3155 | |
0.6466 | 0.3534 | 0.1288 | 0.2334 | 0.3162 | Tangency Portfolio |
0.8000 | 0.2000 | 0.1380 | 0.2668 | 0.3111 | |
1.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.1500 | 0.3200 | 0.2969 |
I know the problem seems very long, but I have done all the steps for you to follow. I need help figuring out how to Tabulate and draw the investment opportunity set of the two risky funds using investment proportions for the stock fund of 0% to 100% in increments of 20%
It is shown on the table above, but I don't understand how the professor figured out those calculations. I would really appreciate if you can help me understand the table above with the tangency portfolio.
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