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You're a financial analyst that evaluates stocks and then forms portfolios for clients. You found a stock that has a beta of 1.3 and an expected return of 13%.
You also have the following data:
Risk Premium on the Market Portfolio 7%
Standard Deviation of Market Portfolio 30%
Risk-Free Fate 5%
Standard Deviation of the Return on this Stock 70%
You are certain all your data is correct.
Consider the following alternatives:
A. Set the weight on this stock to some non-trivial positive value in which case portfolio returns will be affected by some of this stock's firm-specific risk.
B. Set the weight on this stock to its weight in the market portfolio so that portfolio returns are not affected by any of this stock's firm-specific risk.
C. Set the weight on this stock to a nontrivial negative value (short-sell the stock) even though this means that some of the stock's firm-specific risk will affect portfolio returns.
Problem 1: Which of the above alternatives would you choose?