Which of the Following Assets Would Typically Be Included in an Asset

question 9

Multiple Choice

Which of the following assets would typically be included in an asset allocation fund?

• A) Stocks
• B) Bonds
• C) Fixed-income securities
• D) Money market instruments
• E) All of these would typically be part of an asset allocation fund.

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean.

Normally Distributed

A descriptor for a type of statistical distribution that is symmetric around its mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Average Starting Salary

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values; a high standard deviation means a lot of variation.