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Finance 300 chap 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cyclical companies | Move with the econmy |
| Counter-cyclical companies | move against the economic gradient. |
| Portfolio | collection of assets |
| Portfolio standard deviation is ____ a weighted average of the standard deviation of the component securities' risk | Not(almost never) |
| Total return | Expected return + Unexpected return |
| Unexpected return | Systematic portion + Unsystematic portion |
| systematic Risk | Factor that affect a large number of assets. (Non diversifiable risk) |
| unsystematic risk | risk factors that affect a limited number of assets(asset-specific risk) |
| unsystematic risk | risk that can be eliminated by combining assets into portfolios. |
| Total Risk | Systematic risk + unsystematic risk |
| Total risk is equal to systematic risk | only when portfolio is very well diversified(low unsystematic risk) |
| the expected return on an assets depends____ on that asset's systematic or market risk | only |
| Market equilibrium | All assets and portfolios must have the some reward to risk ration in equilibrium |
| Security market line | the representation of market equilibrium |
| diversification | the practice of investing in a variety of diverse assets as a means of reducing risk |
| Portfolio diversification | eliminates unsystematic risk |
| cost of capital | is the minimun required rate of return on a new investment that makes that investment attractive. |
| Beta | measures systematic risk |