Use the Following Information to Answer the Question(s)below

question 5

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
-Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)One difficulty when trying to estimate beta for a security is that beta depends on the correlation and volatilities of the security's and market's returns in the future.
• B)It is common practice to estimate beta based on the expectations of future correlations and volatilities.
• C)One difficulty when trying to estimate beta for a security is that beta depends on investors' expectations of the correlation and volatilities of the security's and market's returns.
• D)Securities that tend to move less than the market have betas below 1.

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