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You cluster a universe of assets from their correlation matrix. What is the first thing to check?
- AWhether the structure survives after removing the market factor and the noise eigenvalues
- BWhether the number of clusters matches the number of sectors
- CWhether every cluster has the same number of assets
- DWhether the algorithm converged
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