hard · FRM Part 1 Quantitative Analysis

A 3 × 3 correlation matrix has eigenvalues λ_1 = 1.5, λ_2 = 1.5, λ_3 = 0.

What does this indicate about the assets in the portfolio?

  1. The portfolio exhibits negative variance under certain asset weight configurations
  2. The three assets are mutually and completely independent of one another
  3. One asset is a perfect linear combination of the other two (multicollinearity).
  4. The matrix is invalid because its eigenvalues are not all equal to one another

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