Business, 24.10.2019 17:43, eri85

5. portfolio risk and diversification a financial planner is examining the portfolios held by several of her clients. which of the following portfolios is likely to have the smallest standard deviation? a portfolio consisting of about 30 energy stocks. a portfolio consisting of about 30 randomly selected stocks. a portfolio containing only chevron stock. portfolio managers pick stocks for their clients’ portfolios based on the investment objective of the portfolio and several other factors. one key consideration is each stock’s contribution to portfolio risk and its statistical relationship with the portfolio’s other stocks. based on your understanding of portfolio risk, identify whether each statement is true or false. statement true false when returns on stock a increase, returns on stock b also increase. in general, this would mean that stocks a and b are positively correlated. the market risk component of the total portfolio risk can be reduced by randomly adding stocks to the portfolio. the risk in a portfolio will increase if more stocks that are negatively correlated with other stocks are added to the portfolio. a portfolio’s risk is not equal to the weighted average of the individual stocks’ standard deviations.

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