Stock X Has a Standard Deviation of Return of 10

question 32

Multiple Choice

Stock X has a standard deviation of return of 10%. Stock Y has a standard deviation of return of 20%. The correlation coefficient between stocks is 0.5. If you invest 60% of the funds in stock X and 40% in stock Y, what is the standard deviation of a portfolio?

• A) 10%
• B) 20%
• C) 12.2%
• D) None of the above

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