medium · FRM Part 1 Foundations of Risk Management
A risk manager observes that two assets have a correlation of -1.0.
What is the minimum possible variance for a portfolio of these two assets, assuming appropriate weights are chosen?
- Half of the sum of the variances.
- Zero
- The weighted average of the two variances.
- The variance of the less volatile asset.
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