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  2. Beta (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Beta can be used to indicate the contribution of an individual asset to the market risk of a portfolio when it is added in small quantity. It refers to an asset's non-diversifiable risk, systematic risk, or market risk. Beta is not a measure of idiosyncratic risk. Beta is the hedge ratio of an investment with respect to the stock market.

  3. Hamada's equation - Wikipedia

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    The importance of Hamada's equation is that it separates the risk of the business, reflected here by the beta of an unlevered firm, β U, from that of its levered counterpart, β L, which contains the financial risk of leverage. Apart from the effect of the tax rate, which is generally taken as constant, the discrepancy between the two betas ...

  4. Single-index model - Wikipedia

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    The single-index model (SIM) is a simple asset pricing model to measure both the risk and the return of a stock. The model has been developed by William Sharpe in 1963 and is commonly used in the finance industry.

  5. What Beta Means: Understanding a Stock’s Risk - AOL

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    Beta is an important measure of one type of risk, but it doesn’t encapsulate all of a stock’s risk. Stocks are shares of real-life businesses , which subjects them to the economic fortunes of ...

  6. Roll's critique - Wikipedia

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    Roll's critique is a famous analysis of the validity of empirical tests of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) by Richard Roll.It concerns methods to formally test the statement of the CAPM, the equation

  7. Tracking signal - Wikipedia

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    For example, with a β of 0.1, a value of T t greater than .51 indicates nonrandom errors. The tracking signal also can be used directly as a variable smoothing constant. [2] There have also been proposed methods for adjusting the smoothing constants used in forecasting methods based on some measure of prior performance of the forecasting model.

  8. Capital market line - Wikipedia

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    Capital market line. Capital market line (CML) is the tangent line drawn from the point of the risk-free asset to the feasible region for risky assets. The tangency point M represents the market portfolio, so named since all rational investors (minimum variance criterion) should hold their risky assets in the same proportions as their weights in the market portfolio.

  9. Arbitrage pricing theory - Wikipedia

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    Proposed by economist Stephen Ross in 1976, [1] it is widely believed to be an improved alternative to its predecessor, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). [2] APT is founded upon the law of one price , which suggests that within an equilibrium market, rational investors will implement arbitrage such that the equilibrium price is eventually ...