Investing in Two Assets with a Correlation Coefficient of 1

question 49

Multiple Choice

Investing in two assets with a correlation coefficient of 1 will reduce which kind of risk?

• A) market risk
• B) unique risk
• C) unsystematic risk
• D) none of these options (With a correlation of 1, no risk will be reduced.)

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Definitions:

Resamples

The practice of repeatedly drawing samples from a given dataset with the intention of estimating a population parameter.

With Replacement

Sampling with replacement is a method where each selected unit is returned to the population before the next unit is selected, allowing it to be possibly chosen more than once.

Bootstrapping Method

A resampling technique used in statistics to estimate the distribution of a statistic by sampling with replacement from the original dataset.

Bootstrap Distribution

A distribution of estimates generated by resampling from a dataset, used to approximate the sampling distribution of a statistic.