Consider an equally weighted portfolio of stocks in which each stock has a volatility of 40%, and the correlation between

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Consider an equally weighted portfolio of stocks in which each stock has a volatility of 40%, and the correlation between each pair of stocks is 20%.
a. What is the volatility of the portfolio as the number of stocks becomes arbitrarily large?
b. What is the average correlation of each stock with this large portfolio?

Stocks
Stocks or shares are generally equity instruments that provide the largest source of raising funds in any public or private listed company's. The instruments are issued on a stock exchange from where a large number of general public who are willing...
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A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...

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