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n a CAPM world of only three risky securities (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG) and one risk-free asset (Rf), you want to construct a market portfolio (M)

n a CAPM world of only three risky securities (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG) and one risk-free asset (Rf), you want to construct a market portfolio (M) using AAPL, MSFT and GOOG with the following information provided.

AAPL MSFT GOOG Rf (the risk-free return)
Expected return 0.16 0.34 0.28 0.02
Standard deviation 0.23 0.23 0.21
Weights of the Market Portfolio (M) - 0.13 0.69 0.44

Correlation matrix:

AAPL MSFT GOOG
AAPL 1
MSFT 0.52 1
GOOG 0.42 0.65 1

Required: [Instruction: Do not round the intermediate answers, and round the final answers to two decimal places, e.g., 0.01]

a. Calculate the expected return and standard deviation of the market portfolio (M).

b. Calculate the covariance of AAPL with the market portfolio (M), that is, cov(AAPL, M).

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