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1. Supposed you invest $400,000 in government bonds and $ 600,000 in the market portfolio. what is the return on your portfolio if bonds yield 6 percent and the market risk premium is 8.6 percent? what does the return on this portfolio imply for the expected return on individual shares with betas of 0.6?
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2. Explain how forming a portfolio may result in reduction in risk. what is the necessary condition for this risk reduction to occur?

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The fact that the market risk premium is 8.6% means that the expected return from investing in the market portfolio is 8.6% greater than the risk free rate (the yield from the government bonds). Since this rate is 6%, then we get that the expected return from the market portfolio is:

8.6 + 6 = 14.6%

Now, the formula for the expected return of a portfolio whose components are assets A and B is:

wA*rA + wB*rB

where wA and wB are the weights of assets A and B in the portfolio; and rA and rB are the expected returns from assets A and B. Let's say that the government bonds are asset A and the market ...

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