Bonds may reduce overall investment risk. The document analyzes annual return data from 2000-2009 for a total stock index fund (x) and a balanced index fund with 60% stocks and 40% bonds (y). It computes sample statistics like the mean, variance, and standard deviation for both funds and uses them to calculate 75% Chebyshev intervals around the means to estimate the range of future returns.
Do bonds reduce the overall risk of an investment portfolio.pdf
1. Do bonds reduce the overall risk of an investment portfolio? Let x be a random variable
representing annual percent return for Vanguard Total Stock Index (all stocks). Let y be a random
variable representing annual return for Vanguard Balanced Index (60% stock and 40% bond). For
the past several years, we have the following data. x: 37 0 18 33 13 17 12 23 12 12 y: 11 11 24 21
20 23 26 8 11 9
(a) Compute x, x
2
, y, y
2
.
(b) Use the results of part (a) to compute the sample mean, variance, and standard deviation for x
and for y. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)
(c) Compute a 75% Chebyshev interval around the mean for x values and also for y values.
(Round your answers to two decimal places.) (find lower and upper limits for x and y)