8. Portfolio risk and diversification Aa Aa A financial planner is examining the portfolios held by several of her clients. which of the following portfolios is tikely to have the smallest standard deviation? O A portfolio with 10 randomly selected U.S. stocks O A portfolio with 10 randomly selected international stocks O A portfolio with 10 randomly selected stocks from u.S. and international markets Portfolio managers pick stocks for their clients portfolios based on the investment objective of the portfoio and several other factors. One key consideration is each stocks contribution to portfolio risk and its statistical relationship with the portfolio's other stocks. Based of your understanding of portfolio risk, identify whether each statement is true or false. Statement True False When returns on Stock A increase, returns on Stock B also increase. In general, this wouidO mean that Stocks A and B are positively correlated. The market risk component of the total portfolio risk can be reduced by randomly adding stocks to the portfolio. The risk in a portfolio will increase if more stocks that are negatively correlated with otherO stocks are added to the portfolio, A portfolio's risk is not equal to the weighted average of the individual stocks' standard deviations