You are a financial analyst in the risk management department of the

pension fund. Your manager has requested the following:

ii$)$ Retrieve monthly stock and benchmark returns and perform a regression

analysis to estimate your chosen companies$$ betas using the Capital Asset

Pricing Model $($CAPM$).$

a$.$ The data could be obtained from Bloomberg or Yahoo finance.

b$.$ Select $5$ companies from different sectors $($listed in FTSE $350$ and S&P $500)$ over the period $(2018-2022).$

c$.$ Which company has the lowest risk?

d$.$ Show the descriptive statistics for the $5$ firms. Do you think this analysis is

important?

e$.$ Select relevant monthly market risk$-$free rates for a $5-$year period. Discuss

the choice of your risk$-$free rates. Evaluate your results.

f$.$ Calculate Treynor ratio and interpret its results. Please provide all the calculations aspect also