B IS CORRECT. BR IS LOWER THAN THE NUMBER OF SECURITIES IF THEIR RE...

5. B is correct. BR is lower than the number of securities if their returns are positively

correlated. Although increasing the rebalancing frequency may increase the information

ratio, it will do so if the sequential active management decisions remain independent. An

unconstrained IR is invariant to the level of active risk, however the IR for a constrained

portfolio generally decreases with the aggressiveness of the strategy. Section 5. LO.f.