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Rodrigo is interested to add stock of Brescia Bhd into his portfolio. Brescia is a stock listed in the Bursa Malaysia and its annual average

Rodrigo is interested to add stock of Brescia Bhd into his portfolio. Brescia is a stock listed in the Bursa Malaysia and its annual average rates of return for the last five years relative to the market index are available for analysis in the Table 1. Meanwhile, the details of his current portfolio position is available in Table 2.

Table 1: Annual average rates of return

Rates of return (%)

Year

Brescia Berhad

KLCI Index

2015

20

15

2016

5

10

2017

10

18

2018

-15

6

2019

-10

-12

Table 2: Current portfolio position

Value (RM)

Expected return

St. Deviation

Beta

Bond of Cagliari

Bhd

20,000

6%

15%

0.85

Stocks of Lecce

Holdings

20,000

5%

10%

2.5

Correlation coefficient between Cagliari and Lecce is 0.45 Expected correlation coefficient between Brescia and Lecce is -0.55

Expected correlation coefficient between Brescia and Cagliari is 0.20

  1. Calculate the portfolio beta if Rodrigo spend RM10,000 to add stock Brescia in his portfolio.

NOTE:TAKE BETA OF STOCK 0.70

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