Exam 5: Risk and Return: Past and Prologue

Treasury notes are paying a 4% rate of return. A risk averse investor with a risk aversion of A = 3 should invest in a risky portfolio with a standard deviation of 24% only if the risky portfolio's expected return is at least ________.

Your timing was good last year. You invested more in your portfolio right before prices went up and you sold right before prices went down. In calculating historical performance measures which one of the following will be the largest?

You are considering investing $1000 in a complete portfolio. The complete portfolio is composed of Treasury notes that pay 5% and a risky portfolio, P, constructed with two risky securities X and Y. The optimal weights of X and Y in P are 60% and 40% respectively. X has an expected rate of return of 14% and Y has an expected rate of return of 10%. To form a complete portfolio with an expected rate of return of 11%, you should invest ________ of your complete portfolio in Treasury notes.

Your investment has a 40% chance of earning a 15% rate of return, a 50% chance of earning a 10% rate of return and a 10% chance of losing 3%. What is the standard deviation of this investment?

You are considering investing $1000 in a complete portfolio. The complete portfolio is composed of Treasury notes that pay 5% and a risky portfolio, P, constructed with two risky securities X and Y. The optimal weights of X and Y in P are 60% and 40% respectively. X has an expected rate of return of 14% and Y has an expected rate of return of 10%. The dollar values of your positions in X, Y, and Treasury notes would be ________, ________ and ________ respectively if you decide to hold a complete portfolio that has an expected return of 8%.

Suppose you pay $9700 for a $10 000 par Treasury bond maturing in three months. What is the holding period return for this investment?

You invest $1000 in a complete portfolio. The complete portfolio is composed of a risky asset with an expected rate of return of 16% and a standard deviation of 20% and a Treasury bond with a rate of return of 6%. You should invest ________ of your complete portfolio in the risky portfolio if you want your complete portfolio to have a standard deviation of 9%.

The excess return is the ________.

The rate of return on ________ is known at the beginning of the holding period while the rate of return on ________ is not known until the end of the holding period.

You have the following rates of return for a risky portfolio for several recent years: The annualised average return on this investment is ________.

You have $500 000 available to invest. The risk-free rate as well as your borrowing rate is 8%. The return on the risky portfolio is 16%. If you wish to earn a 22% return, you should ________.

Consider the following two investment alternatives. First, a risky portfolio that pays 15% rate of return with a probability of 40% or 5% with a probability of 60%. Second, a Treasury bond that pays 6%. The risk premium on the risky investment is ________.

An investment earns 10% the first year, 15% the second year and loses 12% the third year. Your total compound return over the three years was ________.

You have calculated the historical dollar-weighted return, annual geometric average return and annual arithmetic average return. You always reinvest your dividends and interest earned on the portfolio. Which method provides the best measure of the actual average historical performance of the investments you have chosen?

You have calculated the historical dollar-weighted return, annual geometric average return and annual arithmetic average return. If you desire to forecast performance for next year, the best forecast will be given by the ________.

You invest $1000 in a complete portfolio. The complete portfolio is composed of a risky asset with an expected rate of return of 16% and a standard deviation of 20% and a Treasury bond with a rate of return of 6%. The slope of the capital allocation line formed with the risky asset and the risk-free asset is ________.

The return on the risky portfolio is 15%. The risk-free rate as well as the investor's borrowing rate is 10%. The standard deviation of return on the risky portfolio is 20%. If the standard deviation on the complete portfolio is 25%, the expected return on the complete portfolio is ________.

The geometric average of -12%, 20% and 25% is ________.

One method to forecast the risk premium is to use the ________.

The market risk premium is defined as ________.