Assignment on Portfolio Standard Deviation and Efficient Frontier

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A. This assignment must be done individually and submitted till 4th May.
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Assignment
You are required to collect two years daily share prices (2017 and2018) for the
two companies assigned to you. Then do the following:

1. Calculate daily return and mean return on each stock

2. Calculate standard deviation for each one
3. Calculate the correlation.
4. Make different portfolios of the stocks with weights ranging from 0
to 100% with gaps of 10% i.e

Stock A Stock B Portfolio

1. 0 100% A
2. 10% 90% B
3. 20% 80% C
4. 30% 70 D
5. 40% 60 E
6. 50% 50 F
7. 60% 40 G
8. 70% 30 H
9. 80% 20 I
10. 90 10 J
11. 100 0 K
1. Calculate portfolio Return and Standard Deviation for each
portfolio
2. Make efficient frontier.