If You Randomly Select Stocks and Add Them to Your

question 46

Multiple Choice

If you randomly select stocks and add them to your portfolio, which of the following statements best describes what you should expect?

• A) Adding more such stocks will increase the portfolio's expected rate of return.
• B) Adding more such stocks will reduce the portfolio's beta coefficient and thus its systematic risk.
• C) Adding more such stocks will have no effect on the portfolio's risk.
• D) Adding more such stocks will reduce the portfolio's market risk but not its unsystematic risk.
• E) Adding more such stocks will reduce the portfolio's unsystematic, or diversifiable, risk.

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Definitions:

Poisson Distributions

Statistical models used to predict the probability of a given number of events occurring within a specified time period, based on a known average rate of occurrence.

Continuous Probability

Describes the probability of outcomes within a continuous range of values, rather than discrete outcomes.

Negative Exponential

A type of mathematical function that decreases rapidly from a positive value toward zero, often used to model decay or depreciation processes.

Last-In, First-Served

A method of service or processing where the most recently arrived item or request is dealt with first, opposite to the first-in, first-served principle.