Question

If investors are risk averse and hold only one stock, we can conclude that the required rate of return on a stock whose standard deviation is 0.21 will be greater than the required return on a stock whose standard deviation is 0.10.A.TrueB.False

Answer 1

Answer:TRUE

Explanation: Standard deviation is the rate of spread of numbers or values around the Mean of the numbers or values, it can also be described as the square root of the variance of a set of numbers or values. In financial analysis, the rate of return is the amount net income of a business entity over a given period of time. A risk averse investor is an investor who will try as much as possible to avoid risk even with high profit investment.

So for a risk average person to take on the investment with higher standard deviation it means the rate of return will be Higher.