If the Correlation Between Two Shares Is +1, Then a Portfolio

question 59

Multiple Choice

If the correlation between two shares is +1, then a portfolio combining these two shares will have a variance that is:

• A)less than the weighted average of the two individual variances.
• B)greater than the weighted average of the two individual variances.
• C)equal to the weighted average of the two individual variances.
• D)less than or equal to average variance of the two weighted variances, depending on other
• Information.
• E)None of the above.

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