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Investments test 1
Chapter 7
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Business
Undergraduate 4
10/15/2013

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Market risk
Definition
Systematic or nondiversifiable
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Firm-specific risk
Definition
Diversifiable or nonsystematic
Term
Covariance and the correlation coefficient
Definition
provide a measure of the way returns two assets vary
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Correlation Effects
Definition
The smaller the correlation, the greater the risk reduction potential
Term
Security Selection
Definition
First step is to determine the risk-return opportunities available
Term
Markowitz Portfolio Selection Model
Definition
Security Selection
We now search for the CAL with the highest reward-to-variability ratio
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The separation property
Definition
portfolio choice problem may be separated into two independent tasks
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Risk Pooling and the Insurance Principle
Definition
seems that selling more policies causes risk to fall
Flaw is similar to the idea that long-term stock investment is less risky
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