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You graduated from UTEP and you were immediately hired at the Wealth Management division of J$.$P$.$ Morgan. Your first assignment is allocate your client's wealth in a mix of J$.$P$.$ Morgan's predetermined equity and bond portfolios. You want to do this by using the single index model. The riskfree rate is $3\%.$ You obtained the following summary statistics from $2018-2023$ for the expected excess return of both assets and the market:

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