A pension fund manager is considering three assets. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill yielding 0.04. The probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows:Expected ret. std. dev. Stock fund0.160.24Bond fund0.090.11The correlation between the fund returns is 0.15. An investor has a risk-aversion of 9. In her optimal complete portfolio (including stocks, bonds, and risk-free assets), what is the proportion of the risk-free asset

The proliferation of bittorrent and other file sharing media have threatened the copyright system. based on an understanding of incentives and opportunity cost, how are the decisions of musicians likely impacted?

Acompany manufactures hair dryers. it buys some of the components, but it makes the heating element, which it can produce at the rate of 920 per day. hair dryers are assembled daily, 250 days a year, at a rate of 360 per day. because of the disparity between the production and usage rates, the heating elements are periodically produced in batches of 2,300 units. a. approximately how many batches of heating elements are produced annually? b. if production on a batch begins when there is no inventory of heating elements on hand, how much inventory will be on hand 4 days later? c. what is the average inventory of elements, assuming each production cycle begins when there are none on hand?

When a shortage or a surplus arises in the loanable funds market a. the supply of loanable funds changes to return the economy to its original real interest rate b. the nominal interest rate is pulled to the new equilibrium level c. the demand for loanable funds changes to return the economy to its original real interest rate d. the real interest rate is pulled to the new equilibrium level