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What is Modern Portfolio Theory and Portfolio Risk?

Andrew Stolz

The portfolio return variance is calculated by multiplying the squared weight of each asset by its variance and adding two times the weight of each asset multiplied by the covariance of the asset pair. Beta is the risk statistic used to compare the portfolio’s exposure to systematic risk to that of the market. which equals 0.25.

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