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FINA 3310 chapter 11
Risk and Return
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Finance
Undergraduate 4
06/26/2018

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expected return
Definition
return on a risky asset expected in the future
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Portfolio
Definition
group of assets such as stocks and bonds held by an investor
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Portfolio weight
Definition
percentage of a portfolio's total value in a particular asset
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principle of diversification
Definition
spreading an investment across a number of assets will eliminate some, but not all, of the risk
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Systematic risk principle
Definition
the expected return on a risky asset depends only on that asset's systematic risk
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beta coefficient
Definition
amount of systematic risk present in a particular risky asset relative to that in an average risky asset
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Security market line
(SML)
Definition
Positively sloped straight line displaying the relationship between expected return and beta
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
(CAPM)
Definition
Equation of the security market line showing the relationship between expected return and beta
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Cost of Capital
Definition
the min required return on a new investment
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