FIN3101 Exam 2 True or False Already Verified A
False ️the best measure to use when comparing alternative investments is the amount of the dollar
gain or loss
True ️with holding periods of more than a year, annualizing the HPR makes it smaller
True ️the lower the correlation coefficie...
FIN3101 Exam 2 True or False Already Verified A
False ✔️the best measure to use when comparing alternative investments is the amount of the dollar
gain or loss
True ✔️with holding periods of more than a year, annualizing the HPR makes it smaller
True ✔️the lower the correlation coefficient between two stocks, the greater will be the benefit from
diversifying by combining the two stocks in a portfolio
False ✔️based on the period 1950-1999, you would have the less uncertainty about any expected
return on small company stocks than you would about the expected return on large company stocks
True ✔️our author discusses the average return and standard deviation for 4 different assets for the
period 1950 - 1999
False ✔️"diversifiable risk", "company-specific" risk, "unsystematic" risk and "market" risk all refer to
the same type of risk
True ✔️by diversifying you can eliminate most or all of unsystematic risk
True ✔️the standard deviation is the square root of the variance
False ✔️a stock with one-half the average market risk would have a value for beta of 2.0
False ✔️the only variable on the right-hand side of the CAPM formula that varies from one company to
another is expected return on the market
False ✔️in order to properly evaluate a stock, investors need only consider its risk
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