Question: How to construct a risk-free portfolio using two assets? Find two assets with correlation between them equal to -1 Find two assets with correlation between

  1. How to construct a risk-free portfolio using two assets?

Find two assets with correlation between them equal to -1

Find two assets with correlation between them equal to 1

Find two assets with correlation between them bigger than 0 but smaller than 1

Find two assets with correlation between them bigger than -1 but smaller than 0

  1. Stock A and B are identical in terms of their expected cash flows. Investors like stock A more than stock B today for reasons unrelated to expected cash flows. They should pay ______ price today to buy A than to buy B. As a result, stock A is expected to have _______ expected return than stock B.

Lower, Lower

Higher; Lower

Higher; Higher

Lower, Higher

  1. What risk is likely to particularly explain the pattern of small firm effects?

Recession risk

Large firms are overvalued

Firm specific risk

Small firms are subject to more behavioral errors from traders

  1. Decreasing the number of stocks in a portfolio from almost infinite number of stocks to just 10 stocks would likely ________________.

increase the return of the portfolio

decrease the variation in returns the investor faces in any one year

increase the systematic risk of the portfolio

increase the unsystematic risk of the portfolio

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