mortgage securities at what it hopes will bo bavgain prices. The fund sponsor has supgested to James that the fund's performance wilt hinges on how the nationat economy performs in the coming year. Spocificaly, he suggested the following possible oulcomes: .James has estirnatod the oxpected rate of retum from this investment is 17.00 percent, James wants to apply his recently acquired undentanding of the secunty market line concept to fis analysis. a. If the risk-free rate of interest is currently 2.8 percent and the beta for the imestment is 1.6 , what is the slope of the security market line for the real astale mortgage securthy investmenl? b. James is also considering the investment of his monery in a markot index fund that has an expected rate of retum of 11 percent. What is the slope of the securty market line (i.e., the reward-to-risk ratio) for this investment opportunity? c. Eased on your analysig of parts a and b above, which investment should James take? Why? a. If the risk-free rate of interest is currently 2.8 porcent and the beta for the imvestment is 1.6 , the slope of the security market line for the real estare mortgage security investment is 6. (Reund to two decirnat places.)