Portfolio Theory and Asset Allocation: Rapid Fire
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What this video covers
- How the most restrictive customer factor governs suitability when risk tolerance conflicts with time horizon or liquidity needs
- Why growth and speculation are distinct objectives on the risk-return ladder, and what each term means for portfolio construction
- How diversification eliminates unsystematic risk but leaves systematic risk untouched, and what the correlation coefficient tells you about diversification benefit
- What beta measures, why the market beta is 1.0 by definition, and how portfolio beta is calculated as a weighted average of holdings
- Why beating the market does not equal positive alpha, and how to compute CAPM expected return to judge whether a manager added value
- The buy/sell rule using CAPM: actual return above CAPM expectation means undervalued (buy), below means overvalued (sell)
- What the efficient frontier represents in Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), and why nothing plots above it
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