Risk and return

what is the beta coefficent, and how are betas used in risk analysis?

Do the expected returns appear to be related to each alternative's market risk?

Fin:3000:0EXW HW6 (Due October 27h) Assume that you recently graduated with a major in finance, and you just landed a job in the trust department of a large regional bank. Your first assignment is to invest $100,000 from an estate for which the bank is trustee. Because the estate is expected to be distributed to the heirs in approximately one year, you have been instructed to plan for a 1-year holding period. Furthermore, your boss has restricted you to the following investment alternatives, shown with their probabilities and associated outcomes. (For now, disregard the items at the bottom of the data; you will fill in the blanks later.) Estimated Returns on Alternative Investments State of the Proba- High Collec- U.S. Market Two-Stock Economy bility T-Bills Tech tions Rubber Portfolio Portfolio 0.1 80% -22.0% 28.0% 10.0% Recession Below Average 0.2 8.0 2.0 14.7 -10.0 10 Average Above Average 0.2 8.0 35.0-10.0 45.0 29.0 Boom -13.0% -- 0.4 8.0 20.0 0.0 7.0 15.0 0.1 8.0 50.0 -20.0 30.0 43.0 The bank's economic forecasting staff has developed probability estimates for the state of the economy, an the trust department has a sophisticated computer program that was used to estimate the rate of return on each alternative under each state of the economy. High Tech, Inc., is an electronics firm, Collections, Inc., collects past due debts; and U.S. Rubber manufactures tires and various other rubber and plastics product The bank also maintains an index fund" that includes a market-weighted fraction of all publicly traded stocks; by investing in that fund, you can obtain average stock market results. Given the situation as described, answer the following questions