You are assigned five stocks (See the excel file titled Companies assigned to students) and you are expected to build the investment portfolios using those five stocks.Please collect the monthly stock prices for the five companies that you are assigned from FINANCE.YAHOO.COM and employ the data time range from Jan 1, 2017 to Mar 30, 2023. Then using the risk-free rate of 1%, you are expected to develop the complete portfolio and develop the efficient frontier of these six securities (T-bill and five stocks). Following is the procedure in detail:

Collect monthly stock price data from Finance.YAHOO.COM. The time range for the date should be from Jan 1, 2017 to Mar 30, 2023. (5%)

Compute monthly stock returns for each stock ( monthly rate of return = (P1 P0) /P0; P is monthly adjusted close price). Then compute the mean and standard deviation of stock returns for each company

Develop Table of Covariance of these five stocks

Develop Efficient Frontier for all risky portfolios constructed with 5 assigned stocks

Find the Minimum-Variance risky portfolio

Find the Efficient portfolios including a risk free asset with risk free rate of 0.30%

Draw the capital market line (CML)