1. If you buy a bond for a discount, is your yield-to-maturity higher, lower or the same as the going market interest rates?
2. How do you solve for this entire problem? even for the proportion invested in T-bills, Stock, and bond?
3. A $500,000 stock portfolio has an annual expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 32%. What is the portfolio Value at Risk (VaR) at a 5% probability level?