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question 8

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Suppose that you currently have $250,000 invested in a portfolio with an expected return of 12% and a volatility of 10%.The efficient (tangent) portfolio has an expected return of 17% and a volatility of 12%.The risk-free rate of interest is 5%.
-Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)Because all other risk is diversifiable,it is an investment's beta with respect to the efficient portfolio that measures its sensitivity to systematic risk,and therefore determines its cost of capital.
• B)If a security's expected return exceeds its required return given our current portfolio,then we can improve the performance of our portfolio by adding more of the security.
• C)The appropriate risk premium for an investment can be determined from its beta with the efficient portfolio.
• D)As we buy shares of a security i,its correlation with our portfolio P will increase,ultimately raising its required return until E[R_i] = R_p.

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