The Optimal Trade-Off Between Risk and Return for a Given

question 44

Multiple Choice

The optimal trade-off between risk and return for a given portfolio problem can be summarized by the

• A) efficient frontier.
• B) investment frontier.
• C) portfolio boundary.
• D) variance boundary.

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Definitions:

Variances

Variances measure the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, identifying how spread out the data points are.

Risky Asset

An investment that has a significant degree of uncertainty regarding its future returns, potentially leading to losses as well as gains.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variability or dispersion in a set of data points, indicating how much individual data points deviate from the mean.

Safe Asset

An investment that is expected to retain its value or even increase in value during times of market turbulence.