The following is part of the computer output from a regression of monthly returns on Waterworks stock agains the S&P 500 Index. A hedge fund manager believes that Waterworks is underpriced, with an alpha of 2% over the coming month. Beta = .75 R-square = .65 Standard deviation of residuals = .06 (ie 6% monthly) a. If he holds a $3 million portfolio of Waterworks stock, and wishes to hedge market exposure for the next month using one-month maturity S&P 500 futures contracts, how many contracts should he enter? Should he buy or sell contracts? The S&P 500 currently is at 1,000 and the contract multiplier is $250. b. What is the standard deviation of the monthly return of the hedged portfolio? c. Assuming that monthly returns are approximately normally distributed, what is the probability that this market-neutral strategy will lose money over the next month? Assume the risk-free rate is .5% per month. If you could show your calculation details that would be greatly appreciated. I am not sure where to start on this and a breakdown of how to solve this would greatly assist me in understanding the problem. Thanks