Question

J. P. Morgan Asset Management publishes information about financial investments. Over the past years, the expected return for the S&P was with a standard deviation of and the expected return over that same period for a Core Bonds fund was with a standard deviation of (J. P. Morgan Asset Management, Guide to the Markets, 1st Quarter, ). The publication also reported that the correlation between the S&P and Core Bonds is . You are considering portfolio investments that are composed of an S&P index fund and a Core Bonds fund. a. Using the information provided, determine the covariance between the S&P and Core Bonds. Round your answer to two decimal places. If required enter negative values as negative numbers.

Answer 1

Answer:

For this problem first we need to figure out the covariance  of the JP morgan

and its value is 24

Second we find expected return and standard deviation whose values are 9% and 34.98