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  2. How to use beta to evaluate a stock’s risk - AOL

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    Stocks with a beta of less than 1 have a smoother ride as their moves are more muted than the market’s, but they’ll usually still go up when the market goes up and down when the market goes down.

  3. Beta (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Beta (finance) Expected change in price of a stock relative to the whole market. In finance, the beta (β or market beta or beta coefficient) is a statistic that measures the expected increase or decrease of an individual stock price in proportion to movements of the stock market as a whole. Beta can be used to indicate the contribution of an ...

  4. Negative-Beta Stocks: Worth Buying? - AOL

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    In this case, a negative beta just a hair under 0 doesn't have any more significance than a positive 0.01 beta would. Ferrellgas will move with gas prices more than with the broad market. Agnico ...

  5. Security market line - Wikipedia

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    Security market line (SML) is the representation of the capital asset pricing model. It displays the expected rate of return of an individual security as a function of systematic, non-diversifiable risk. The risk of an individual risky security reflects the volatility of the return from the security rather than the return of the market portfolio.

  6. Downside beta - Wikipedia

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    Downside beta. In investing, downside beta is the beta that measures a stock's association with the overall stock market (risk) only on days when the market’s return is negative. Downside beta was first proposed by Roy 1952 [1] and then popularized in an investment book by Markowitz (1959).

  7. Hold-up problem - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In economics, the hold-up problem is central to the theory of incomplete contracts, and shows the difficulty in writing complete contracts. A hold-up problem arises when two factors are present: Parties to a future transaction must make noncontractible relationship-specific investments before the transaction takes place.

  8. Standardized approach (operational risk) - Wikipedia

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    e. In the context of operational risk, the standardized approach or standardised approach is a set of operational risk measurement techniques proposed under Basel II capital adequacy rules for banking institutions. Basel II requires all banking institutions to set aside capital for operational risk. Standardized approach falls between basic ...

  9. Utility maximization problem - Wikipedia

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    It is a type of optimal decision problem. It consists of choosing how much of each available good or service to consume, taking into account a constraint on total spending (income), the prices of the goods and their preferences. Utility maximization is an important concept in consumer theory as it shows how consumers decide to allocate their ...