The W Equity Portfolio Has a Standard Deviation of Returns

question 33

Multiple Choice

The W Equity portfolio has a standard deviation of returns of 8. The R Bond portfolio has a standard deviation of returns of 6. If the Covariance of these portfolio is 5 what is this portfolio's coefficient of correlation?

• A) 0.1042
• B) 0.889
• C) 0.43
• D) -0.1042

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