Assume that we are living in a perfect capital market there


Assume that we are living in a perfect capital market, there are no arbitrage opportunity, transaction costs or any other frictions. You are considering investing your money in two stocks. Stock A has no ideosyncratic risk. Stock B has high idiosyncratic risk. Which of the following statement is correct?

A) You will require higher return on stock B, since it yields higher idosyncratic risk than stock A

B) When market is booming, stock B has better return than stock A. When market is down, stock B has worse return than Stock A.

C) Stock A and B could have the same expected return.

D) Since Stock A has no idiosyncratic risk, Stock A has less risk than stock B. You would prefer investing your money in Stock A than stock B.

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