Market Risk Metrics – Beta with respect to market indices
3 mins read Beta is a quantitative measure of the volatility or systematic risk of a given instrument (e.g. equity) to that of
3 mins read Beta is a quantitative measure of the volatility or systematic risk of a given instrument (e.g. equity) to that of
4 mins read We started off the day with a review of the three challenges of starting and running a business. The first is the Stage one decision linked to opportunity cost and how that keeps on growing as we mature and succeed in life. The second challenge is launching the product or business challenge and the reason why we fail here is because we get products, pricing, selling or shipping wrong. The final challenge is the growth and expansion challenge where well established businesses comfortable and successful in one arena stumble and fail as they opt to grow and expand in newer markets
2 mins read The Holding Period Return represents the return earned by an instrument (e.g. an equity stock) over the time that it
2 mins read Market risk is the risk that movements in market prices will adversely impact the value of an investment. There are
< 1 min read Another way of viewing correlations between variables is to graph the relative price of one item against that of another.
< 1 min read Earlier in our post on Correlation Coefficients, we had stated that correlations change over time and that it is important