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A signal holds 500 names but its returns are almost entirely explained by a single sector tilt. What is its effective breadth?
- AAbout 500, one per name
- BClose to one – it is really a single bet
- CAbout 250, by symmetry
- DUndefined without the full covariance matrix of the positions
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