Risk and Return
Defining Risk and Return Using Probability Distributions to Measure Risk Attitudes Toward Risk Risk and Return in a Portfolio Context Diversification The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Efficient Financial Markets
Discuss the different types of investor attitudes toward risk.
Explain risk and return in a portfolio context, and distinguish between individual security and portfolio risk.
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Defining Risk
The variability of returns from those that are expected.
What rate of return do you expect on your investment (savings) this year?
R is the expected return for the asset,
Ri is the return for the ith possibility,
Pi is the probability of that return occurring,
Define and explain the capital-asset pricing model (CAPM), beta, and the characteristic line.