P8-13 (book/static) Question Help Portfolio return and standard deviation Personal Finance Problem Jamie Wong is thinking of building an investment portfolio containing two stocks, L and M. Stock L will represent 40% of the dollar value of the portfolio, and stock M will account for the other 60%. The historical returns over the next 6 years, 2013 2018, for each of these stocks are shown in the following table: a. Calculate the actual portfolio return, rp, for each of the 6 years. b. Calculate the expected value of portfolio returns, ip, over the 6-year period. C. Calculate the standard deviation of expected portfolio returns, Opp, over the 6-year period. d. How would you characterize the correlation of returns of the two stocks L and M? e. Discuss any benefits of diversification achieved by Jamie through creation of the portfolio. i X Data Table a. The actual portfolio return for year 2013 is %. (Round to two decimal places.) (Click on the icon here e in order to copy the contents of the data table below into a spreadsheet.) Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Expected return Stock L Stock M 14% 20% 14% 18% 16% 16% 17% 14% 17% 12% 19% 10% Print Done