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total net investment (stock plus riskless assets<br />

minus borrowing). Then the investor's net<br />

return per dollar of total net investment will be<br />

(1) y =(1 -w)r*+wt =r*+w(f—r*); Ogw< *,<br />

where a value of w < 1 indicates that the investor<br />

holds some of his capital in riskless assets and<br />

receives interest amounting to (l-w)r*; while<br />

w> 1 indicates that the investor borrows to buy<br />

stocks on margin and pays interest amounting to<br />

the absolute value of (1—w)r*. From (1) we<br />

determine the mean and variance of the net return<br />

per dollar of total net investment to be:<br />

(2a) y=r*+w(f—r*), and<br />

(24)

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