Latoya Company provides the following selected information related to its defined benefit pension plan for 2020. Pension asset/liability (January 1) $25,000 Cr.
Accumulated benefit obligation (December 31) 400,000
Actual and expected return on plan assets 10,000
Contributions (funding) in 2012 150,000
Fair value of plan assets (December 31) 800,000
Settlement rate 10%
Projected benefit obligation (January 1) 700,000
Service cost 80,000

Required:
a. Compute pension expense for 2020.
b. Prepare the journal entry to record pension expense and the employer

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i. e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i. e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.