Which of the Following Statements Is Most Correct

question 13

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is most correct?

• A) The expected return on a portfolio of financial assets is equal to the summation of the products of the expected returns of the individual assets multiplied by the probability of each return being realized.
• B) When adding new securities to a portfolio,the higher or more positive the degree of correlation between the new securities and those already in the portfolio,the greater the benefits of the additional portfolio diversification.
• C) In portfolio analysis,we rarely use ex post (historical)returns and standard deviations,because we are interested in ex ante (future)data.
• D) Portfolio diversification reduces the variability of returns on each security held in the portfolio.
• E) All of the above statements are false.

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