Consider a capital market with only two risky assets A and B. Their standard deviations are 1 and 2, respectively. There is no risk-free asset. When the correlation coefficient ρAB = 0, construct a portfolio, whose variance is strictly less than 1. [Hint: you may want to try the portfolio that puts more weight on the security with the lower standard deviation.]

Consider a capital market with only two risky assets A and B. Their standard deviations are 1 and 2, respectively. There is no risk-free asset. When the correlation coefficient ρAB = 0, construct a portfolio, whose variance is strictly less than 1. [Hint: you may want to try the portfolio that puts more weight on the security with the lower standard deviation.]

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

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Chapter10: Statistics

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