Suppose a Portfolio Has 55 Percent of Its Assets Invested

question 80

Multiple Choice

Suppose a portfolio has 55 percent of its assets invested in Stock S with a standard deviation of 40 percent and the remainder in Stock T with a standard deviation of 12 percent. If the correlation between the two stocks is 0.22, what is the standard deviation of the portfolio?

• A) 21.05%
• B) 22.94%
• C) 23.78%
• D) 24.68%
• E) 25.56%

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