A Stock Fund Has a Standard Deviation of 16 Percent

question 27

Multiple Choice

A stock fund has a standard deviation of 16 percent and a bond fund has a standard deviation of 4 percent.The correlation of the two funds is .11.What is the weight of the stock fund in the minimum variance portfolio?

• A) 3.47 percent
• B) 6.48 percent
• C) 11.92 percent
• D) 14.67 percent
• E) 18.22 percent

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