3. As an investor, you are interested in creating a portfolio of assets that can reduce the overall risk of the investment without sacrificing the expected returns. (i) Explain how diversification can reduce the portfolio risk of assets to below the weighted average of the risk of the individual assets. (ii) How do the systematic risk and firm-specific risk of a firm relate to the benefits of diversification?

3. As an investor, you are interested in creating a portfolio of assets that can reduce the overall risk of the investment without sacrificing the expected returns. (i) Explain how diversification can reduce the portfolio risk of assets to below the weighted average of the risk of the individual assets. (ii) How do the systematic risk and firm-specific risk of a firm relate to the benefits of diversification?

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Explain the unique risk and the market risk. What risk can be reduced when you diversify your portfolio by investing across many different assets?
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Wolseley manufacturing Co. invests in a group of risky projects, which increases the unsystematic risk of the firm, but does not change the systematic risk of the firm. All else the same, the expected risk premium on its common stock is most likely to: Select one: a. Increase, because the difference between the expected return on the firm's stock and the risk-free rate will widen. b. Increase or decrease, depending on the internal rate of return of the new projects. c. Decrease, because the difference between the expected return on the firm's stock and the risk-free rate will widen. d. Decrease, because the difference between the expected return on the firm's stock and the risk-free rate will narrow. e. Remain unchanged, because the level of systematic risk is unchanged.
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