You are currently working as an analyst at Financial Consulting Bhd. Your supervisor has instructed you to form an equity fund portfolio that consists of TWO (2) banks, namely Maybank Bhd & Public Bank Bhd. The portfolios have a total fund size of RM10 million. Before you can start with your analysis, you have to collect monthly stock prices of each stock in your portfolio over the last 12 months.

You are required to

c Compute the average monthly stock return and standard deviation of returns of each stock over the last 12 months.

(30 marks