The risk of a completely diversified portfolio ______________.
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can be regarded as the standard deviation of the market portfolio
has only systematic risk and no unsystematic risk
can be regarded as the variance of the market portfolio
has only unsystematic risk and no systematic risk
A portfolio of two perfectly _________ stocks has no diversification effect
Group of answer choices
uncorrelated
positively correlated
negatively correlated
risk-free
Question 1: has only systematic risk and no unsystematic risk
Systematic risk or non-diversifiable risk is the risk that cannot be diversified away and is the one for which market compensates the investors. Non-systematic risk or firm specific risk is the risk that would be removed or minimal in a well diversified portfolio. Systematic risk is measured by 'Beta'.
Question 2: positively correlated
A portfolio of two perfectly positively correlated stocks would have no diversification effect. This is because the returns of the two stocks would be highly related and would move in the same direction. For the diversification to work, there should be minimal correlation between the two stock.
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