If an Individual Owns Only One Security the Most Appropriate

question 29

Multiple Choice

If an individual owns only one security the most appropriate measure of risk is:

• A) Standard deviation
• B) Correlation
• C) Beta
• D) Covariance
• E) All of the above are equally important

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