A Stock Fund Has a Standard Deviation of 18 Percent

question 35

Multiple Choice

A stock fund has a standard deviation of 18 percent and a bond fund has a standard deviation of 11 percent. The correlation of the two funds is .24. What is the approximate weight of the stock fund in the minimum variance portfolio?

• A) 16 percent
• B) 19 percent
• C) 21 percent
• D) 24 percent
• E) 27 percent

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