1. You are given the following three stocks and you have been asked to propose a portfolio for a wealthy client. The client wants either a 2 asset (A-B, B-C, or A-C) or a 3 asset(A-B-C) portfolio. In any case, the portfolios must be equal weighted. Which of the four portfolios do you suggest to the client? Why?

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Stocks	Mean Return	Std of Return
X	1.5	4
Y	4	8
Z	7	1
Correlations
X and Y	X and Z	Z and Y
0.5	0.2	0.7