You have gathered information about the expected returns and standard deviations of two stocks A and B

Expected return For A: 15%

Expected return for B: 10%

Standard deviation for A: 30%

Standard deviation for B: 40%

a.Discuss which stock is more attractive and why?

You are going to form a portfolio, which includes these two stocks. The value of your total portfolio is 500 000 and investment into stock B is 30% of the total portfolio.

b.It is estimated that the correlation between the stock returns is 0.22. Explain, what does this result mean?

c.Calculate the portfolio risk and expected return, and explain the benefits of diversification.