Calculating Expected Portfolio Returns and Portfolio Variances

In today’s video, we learn how to calculate a portfolio’s return and variance. We go through four different examples and then I provide a homework example for you guys to work on. Comment and share your answers below.

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[suzannedoyle]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK I wish you were my teacher!!! This video explained it all versus the entire semester at my school when I learned nothing! I so appreciate your time in making this video. :)

[Zamo]

before i wrote my test today i decided to watch this video and a similar question came up... Thank you so much for the upload

[kristacloud]

By far the best video on calculating the expected returns and variances! Thank you for posting this

[markgenuelparadero]

Expected value of the return of the portfolio is 2.725%. Variance is 2.80%. Standard deviation is 16.73%. So the range is from -14.005% to 19.455% within 1 standard deviation.

[rosymoon]

This is the best video explaining how to calculate the Variance of a portfolio! Thanks so much for making such good content.

[jeniececollazo]

There's so many steps to this it's not funny. thank you so much for the video. You help me figure out my homework problem.

[olivejess]

Having a great portfolio management is really important because it will help you earn more returns from the stock market compared to when doing some guessing, you know you don't want to mess around with your investment capital

[hasanmahmud]

I swear to God you saved my grade. wish my teachers in school taught me like these. thank you for this vid

[sarahserwar]

Exceptionally Useful, THANK YOU SO MUCH

[dianecai]

this is the most helpful video on this subject ever. i have a test in a couple hours and this helped me out so much

[키아나-cv]

such a good video. my investments professor doesn't even explain anything. so this is helpful

[kingmoe]

I don’t know if finance is for me Anymore 😂 might change to marketing

[LorraineSamu]

Hi FinanceKid, i got an expected return of portfolio as 2.725% Variance of 0.02800 and SD of 0.16733. Please share your answer so that we can check if we understood the concept. looking forward to your valued response. Thanks for your informed video
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[alexu]

Thank you very much Sir, following you from Madrid, Spain. I will no longer skip my financial management lectures :)

[raminalibeyli]

I got 2, 725 for a) and 2, 8 for b) in bonus question

[zachghilino]

is this the same as σ^
2p = (wAσA)^2 + (wB σB )^2 + 2wAwB Cov(rA, rB ). It seems like it's leaving out the covariance part but the formula is confusing.

[MossA-oxys]

Very good review for my FIN301 exam, thankyou!

[lianliu]

Thank you for explaining it clearly. But there's only one question that at 8:08 if the way you showed us is wrong, what's the right way to calculate it. Maybe the following example cannot explain this.

[fiosa]

Expected Return 2.725% and Variance 0.028001

[poornimack]

Wonderfull explanation greetings from India 🇮🇳