PRIN.OF CORPORATE FINANCE
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Author: BREALEY
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Chapter 7, Problem 13PS
Risk and diversification In which of the following situations would you get the largest reduction in risk by spreading your investment across two stocks?
- a. The two shares are perfectly correlated.
- b. There is no correlation.
- c. There is modest negative correlation.
- d. There is perfect negative correlation
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Identify the FALSE statement
a. Where two securities are perfectly positively correlated, there is no reduction in unsystematic risk through diversification.
b. Portfolio theory, as initially developed by Markowitz (1952), assumes that the returns from investments are normally distributed.
c. Beta is calculated by finding the covariance between the return on the asset and the return on the market and dividing it by the variance of the return on the market.
d. A well-diversified portfolio should have a beta significantly less than one.
Which of the following statements is false?
A.
The lower the correlation coefficient, the greater the potential benefits from diversification.
B.
To make the covariance of two random variables easier to interpret, it may be divided by the product of the random variables’ standard deviation. The resulting value is called the correlation coefficient, or simply, correlation.
C.
The risk that remains cannot be diversified away and is called the systematic risk.
D.
In the event of bankruptcy, preferred stock ranks below common stock but above debt.
When seeking to diversify and eliminate unsystematic risk in your portfolio, do you want stocks whose movements have high correlation (i.e. move together) or low correlation (i.e. don't move togeter).
a) High correlation
b) Low correlation
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