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A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are:

	Expected Return	Standard Deviation
Stock fund (S)	16%	34%
Bond fund (B)	10%	25%

The correlation between the fund returns is 0.17.

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Problem 6-11 (Algo)

Suppose now that your portfolio must yield an expected return of 13% and be efficient, that is, on the best feasible CAL.

Required: a. What is the standard deviation of your portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

b-1. What is the proportion invested in the T-bill fund? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

b-2. What is the proportion invested in each of the two risky funds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

	Proportion Invested
Stocks		%
Bonds		%