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Fundamentals of Investment Management, 7/e
Geoffrey A. Hirt, DePaul University
Stanley B. Block, Texas Christian University
A Basic Look at Portfolio Management and Capital Market Theory

Chapter Objectives


  1. Understand the basic statistical techniques for measuring risk and return.
  2. Explain how the portfolio effect works to reduce the risk of an individual security.
  3. Discuss the concept of an efficient portfolio.
  4. Explain the importance of the capital asset pricing model.
  5. Understand the concept of the beta coefficient.
  6. Discuss the required return on an individual stock and how it relates to its beta.




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