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  • A. Alpha coefficient
  • B. Beta coefficient
  • C. Stand-alone coefficient
  • D. Relevant coefficient

Explanation: Beta measures a stock's sensitivity to market movements and therefore captures its systematic, or relevant, risk.

Correct answer: Beta coefficient
  • A. Average rate of return
  • B. Expected rate of return
  • C. Past rate of return
  • D. Weighted rate of return

Explanation: Expected rate of return is the probability-weighted average of possible returns.

Correct answer: Expected rate of return
  • A. Risk taking
  • B. Risk aversion
  • C. Market aversion
  • D. Portfolio aversion

Explanation: Risk premium compensates investors for bearing risk, so the amount demanded generally rises with their degree of risk aversion.

Correct answer: Risk aversion
  • A. Negativity
  • B. Positivity
  • C. Correlation
  • D. Diversification

Explanation: With perfectly positively correlated assets, both assets move in the same direction and diversification cannot reduce portfolio risk.

Correct answer: Diversification
  • A. Mean
  • B. Weighted average
  • C. Mean correlation
  • D. Negative correlation

Explanation: Portfolio risk is often lower than the weighted average of individual asset risks because imperfect correlations allow diversification to…

Correct answer: Weighted average
  • A. Coefficient of market
  • B. Relative to market
  • C. Ir-relative to market
  • D. Same with market

Explanation: Beta measures a stock's systematic volatility relative to market movements, with the market beta equal to 1.

Correct answer: Relative to market
  • A. Security market line
  • B. Required return line
  • C. Market risk line
  • D. Riskier return line

Explanation: The Security Market Line shows the relationship between a security's required return and its systematic risk, measured by beta.

Correct answer: Security market line
  • A. Correlation
  • B. Move tendency
  • C. Variables tendency
  • D. Double tendency

Explanation: Correlation describes the tendency of two variables to move together, including both the direction and strength of their relationship.

Correct answer: Correlation
  • A. Probability
  • B. Risk
  • C. Chance
  • D. Event happening

Explanation: Probability is the numerical measure of the chance that an event will occur, ranging from 0 for impossibility to 1 for certainty.

Correct answer: Probability
  • A. Risk factors
  • B. Premium factors
  • C. Bond buying factors
  • D. Multi model

Explanation: Term-structure, inflation, and bond-default premiums are risk-related components used in determining required returns on bonds.

Correct answer: Risk factors
  • A. Tendency coefficient
  • B. Variable coefficient
  • C. Correlation coefficient
  • D. Double coefficient

Explanation: The correlation coefficient is the statistical measure of how strongly and in what direction two variables move together.

Correct answer: Correlation coefficient
  • A. Chance
  • B. Event happening
  • C. Probability
  • D. Risk

Explanation: Risk is the possibility that an unfavorable event or loss may occur, whereas probability measures the likelihood of an event.

Correct answer: Risk
  • A. Risk
  • B. Return
  • C. Deviation
  • D. Both A and B

Explanation: The coefficient of variation compares risk, measured by standard deviation, with return, usually as standard deviation divided by expected…

Correct answer: Both A and B
  • A. Higher risk
  • B. Lower risk
  • C. Expected risk
  • D. Peaked risk

Explanation: A tighter probability distribution means possible returns are clustered more closely around the expected return, indicating less…

Correct answer: Lower risk
  • A. Coefficient of variation
  • B. Coefficient of deviation
  • C. Coefficient of standard
  • D. Coefficient of return

Explanation: The coefficient of variation is calculated as standard deviation divided by expected rate of return.

Correct answer: Coefficient of variation
  • A. Stock risk
  • B. Portfolio risk
  • C. Diversifiable risk
  • D. Market risk

Explanation: Strikes, failed marketing efforts, and lawsuits are largely company-specific events that can be reduced through diversification.

Correct answer: Diversifiable risk
  • A. Market portfolio
  • B. Return portfolio
  • C. Correlated portfolio
  • D. Diversified portfolio

Explanation: A market portfolio contains all available stocks in the market, weighted according to their market values.

Correct answer: Market portfolio
  • A. Coefficient risk volatility
  • B. Market risk volatility
  • C. Stock market volatility
  • D. Portfolio market portfolio

Explanation: Beta measures a stock's sensitivity to movements in the overall stock market, so it indicates the stock's market-risk volatility relative…

Correct answer: Stock market volatility
  • A. Patents premium
  • B. Competition premium
  • C. Company's beta
  • D. Expiry premium

Explanation: Patent expiry and increased industry competition can change a firm's systematic risk by affecting its sensitivity to economic and…

Correct answer: Company's beta
  • A. Multiple risk stock
  • B. Varied risk stock
  • C. Total risk stock
  • D. Average risk stock

Explanation: A beta of one means the stock's systematic risk and expected market movement are average relative to the market portfolio.

Correct answer: Average risk stock