Caleb ' s current portfolio comprises a well-diversified global equity fund and a bond fund. He is considering adding a small-cap resource fund to his portfolio. What is Caleb trying to achieve by adding this fund?
Caleb is attempting to improve diversification by adding an investment whose return pattern may have a low correlation with his existing global equity and bond holdings. Portfolio diversification is most effective when investments do not all respond identically to the same economic and market conditions. A small-cap resource fund is a specialty fund and may behave differently from a broad global equity fund and a conventional bond fund. The IFC material specifically explains that specialty funds, although relatively risky on a stand-alone basis, can provide diversification benefits when their returns have low correlation with other portfolio holdings. Increasing beta or standard deviation would increase risk rather than represent the diversification objective, while reduced fees are unrelated to adding a specialty fund. Therefore, Option D is correct.
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