Consider the following assets:
(a) Compute the market betas for assets X and Y.
(b) Compute the correlations of assets X and Y with M.
(c) Assume you were holding only M. You now are selling off 10% of your M portfolio to replace it with 10% of either X or Y. Would an MX portfolio or an MY portfolio be riskier?
(d) Is the correlation indicative of which of these two portfolios ended up riskier? Is the market beta indicative?