When Returns Are Perfectly Positively Correlated,the Risk of the Portfolio

question 49

Multiple Choice

When returns are perfectly positively correlated,the risk of the portfolio is:

• A)zero
• B)the weighted average of the individual securities risk
• C)equal to the correlation coefficient between the securities
• D)infinite

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