You decide to invest in a portfolio consisting of 40 percent Stock A, 30 percent Stock B, and the remainder in Stock C. Based on the following information, what is the expected return of your portfolio? Probability of State Return if State Stock
State of Economy of Economy Stock A Stock B Stock C
Recession -20 -18.2% 3.6% -22.5%
Normal -51 10.8% 8.2% 16.8%
Boom -29 28.0% 15.5% 31.4%
a. 11.14%.
b. 13.73%.
c. 12.59%.
d. 71.62%.
e. 10.65%.

e. 10.65%.

Explanation:

First find the expected return of the individual stocks;

Stock A = (0.2 * - 0.182) + (0.51 * 0.108) + (0.29 * 0.28) = 9.99%

Stock B =  (0.2 * - 0.036) + (0.51 * 0.082) + (0.29 * 0.155) = 7.96%

Stock C = (0.2 * - 0.225) + (0.51 * 0.168) + (0.29 * 0.314) = 13.17%

Expected return of portfolio = ∑(Stock expected return * weight)

= (0.4 * 0.0999) + (0.3 * 0.0796) + (0.3 * 0.1317)

= 10.65%

Question is missing detail. Stock B return in recession is negative figure.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

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