Coefficient of correlation between their returns

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1. You opened several accounts with XYZ broker. Which of the following accounts is under identical ownership as your individual portfolio margin account?

a. Your Roth Individual Retirement Account

b. Your Individual Margin Account

c. Your Joint Account with Rights of Survivorship

d. Your Corporate Account

e. Your 401(k) Account

2. Consider a position consisting of a $200,000 investment in gold and a $300,000 investment in silver. Suppose that the daily volatilities of these two assets are 3.2% and 1.4%, respectively and that the coefficient of correlation between their returns is 0.87.

a. What is the 10-day 97.5% value at risk for the portfolio?

b. By how much does diversification reduce the VaR?

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