单选题

Condider a portfolio with two assets. Asset A compnses 25% of the portfolio and has a standard deviation of 17.9%. Asset B comprises 75% of the portfolio and has a standerd deviation of 6.2%.If the correlation of these two investments is 0.5,the portfolio standard deviation is closest to:

【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】

The standard deviation of two-asset portfolio is given by the square root of the portfolio'variance:

Using this formula,the esidting standard deviation is calculated as follows: