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1. Basic concepts - Risk and return Professor Isadore (Izzy) Invest-a-Lot retired two years ago from Exceptional College, a small liberal arts college in North Carolina after teaching corporate finance and investment theory for 35 years. Yesterday, Izzy appear on EC LIVE, a television show produced for the students, faculty and staff on the EU campus and the local communities. Samantha Silvertongue is the host of EC LIVE, and one of Professor Izzy's former students. The following is a transcript of the interview. Unfortunately the software that transcribes the interview into written form failed to understand several words and phrases used in the interview. To complete the transcript and demonstrate your knowledge of the risks and returns of investing, please select the best answer from each dropdown menu. SAMANTHA: Good morning, Professor Invest-a-Lot. I'd like to welcome you to EC LIVE, and thank you for coming in today to offer us insights into the basics of investing. I remember your course well, and while my grades didn't always reflect great success, I was always very interested in the material and the possibility of using the concepts and techniques when the opportunities arose. IZZY: Good morning, Samantha, and please call me, Izzy. Thank you for the invitation to discuss one of the important fundamentals to sound investing: an appreciation of the relationship between the objective or outcome of your investment, that is its return, and the likelihood of receiving it, or the investment's return : SAMANTHA: Let's begin with the way that risk can-or should be-analyzed. Izzy, what is investment risk, and how should it be evaluated? IZZY: An investment's risk, or the probability that it generates a return that is greater or less than its expected return, can be considered from two perspectives: that of asset, or a single-asset portfolio, and that of a multiple-asset portfolio. of the asset's possible outcomes, while the risk of an asset in a The risk of a single asset is best measured by the multiple-asset portfolio is best measured by its SAMANTHA: Now, I seem to recall that there are two major types of risk affecting a security: systematic and unsystematic risk. What is the difference between them, and is there a way to reduce your exposure to them? IZZY: Those are fantastic questions! Systematic risk, also called or market risk, results from phenomena that affect the majority of firms and securities. Since the events or circumstances that give rise to market risk affect most firms, it possible to diversify away this type of risk. Unsystematic, or company-specific, risk, on the other hand, is because it results from events and phenomena that are unique to a particular individual firm. Examples of these events or phenomena include, but are not limited to, earthquakes and tornados, labor unrest and strikes, and lawsuits or marketing campaigns. As these occurrences are an investor's unsystematic risk can be diversified away by the number of securities held in the investor's portfolio. The reduced riskiness of the market portfolio is reinforced by noting that the standard deviation of the average single-stock portfolio is 35%, whereas the standard deviation of the market portfolio, which is assumed to contain approximately stocks, is 20%. Therefore, the addition of more and more randomly selected stocks to the portfolio its riskiness. SAMANTHA: That makes sense. So what does this mean for the returns earned on an investment? IZZY: In short, it means that a rational investor can only expect to be compensated for his or her exposure to risk. He or she will not be compensated for the eliminated by increasing the size of his or her portfolio. risk that could be SAMANTHA: So, the market will not compensate me for not doing what a rational investor could-and should-do. Is that right? IZZY: That is absolutely correct. The fact that you, as an investor, do not choose to act rationally be compensated. SAMANTHA: Izzy, this is fascinating stuff. Unfortunately our time is up, but I'd like very much for you to come back next week to continue our discussion. Would that fit into your schedule? IZZY: Of course, and I'll look forward to it! However, before I leave, I'd like to ask you and the audience to take a pop quiz. It addresses the material discussed today and several related concepts. It is intended to reinforce some of the important risk-and-return-related concepts. Have fun, and I'll see you next week! 1. Which of the following statements is correct? Check all that apply. A investor's exposure to market risk can be diversified away by holding approximately 40 randomly selected securities in an investor's portfolio Possible sources of market or non-diversifiable risk include inflation and commodity price changes, changes in currency exchange rates, and fluctuations in interest rates. O Non-systematic risk reflects the risk that remains after an investor has diversified his or her portfolio. 2. The phenomena and behaviors discussed above are based on the assumption that the majority of investors are risk averse. According to the concept of risk aversion, Check all that apply. An investor will assess the riskiness of a security, and then determine his or her appropriate rate of return. O A risk-averse investor will prefer an investment that offers a 7% return with a standard deviation of 2% to an alternative investment that offers a 7% return with a standard deviation of 4%. 3. Which statement is correct? It is theoretically possible to create a portfolio that offers a positive return and whose standard deviation is zero. It is theoretically impossible to create a portfolio that offers a positive return and a standard deviation of zero. The addition of an asset to a portfolio, when the correlation coefficient between the asset's and portfolio's returns is +1, will reduce the riskiness of the portfolio. O The addition of an asset to a portfolio, when the correlation coefficient between the asset's and portfolio's returns is -1, will increase the riskiness of the portfolio.

Dropdown options:

1-risk/return

2-equal to/greater or less than

3-self contained/stand-alone

4-variance/standard deviation

5-variance/beta coefficient

6-diversifiable/non-diversiable

7-is/ is not

8-diversifiable/non-diversifiable

9-random/non random

10-decreasing/increasing

11-2000+/500

12-reduces/increases

13-systematic of market/unsystematic or company-specific

14-diversifiable/non diversifiable

Answer 1

1. risk

2. greater or less than

3. stand-alone

4. standard deviation

5. beta coefficient

6. non-diversifiable

7. is not

8. diversifiable

9. random

10. increasing

11. 2000+

12. reduces

13. systematic or market

14. diversifiable

15. will not

16. Options to be selected ( all the three to be selected) :

(I ) A investor's exposure to company-specific risk can be diversified away by holding approximately 40 randomly-selected securities in an investor's portfolio

(ii) possible Sources Of Market Or None Diversifiable Risk Include Inflation And Commodity Price Changes, Changes In Currency Exchange Rates, And Fluctuations In Interest Rates

(iii)non-systematic risk reflects the risk that remains after an investor has diversified his or her portfolio

17. Option , an investor will assess the riskiness of a security and then determine his or her appropriate rate of return or a risk-averse investor will prefer an investment that offers a 7% return with a standard deviation of 2% on an alternative investment that offers 7% return with a standard deviation of 4%

18. Option, it is theoretically possible to create a portfolio that offers a positive return and whose standard deviation is 0