During Class, Your Goal as a Listener Is to Comprehend

question 4

Multiple Choice

During class, your goal as a listener is to comprehend the basic ideas, concepts, and theories communicated to you by your professors. We would characterize this type of listening as

• A) critical listening.
• B) empathic listening.
• C) appreciative listening.
• D) informational listening.

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Definitions:

Alpha

Alpha is a measure used in finance to describe an investment strategy's ability to beat the market, or its "excess return" relative to the return of the benchmark index.

Index Model

A model of stock returns using a market index such as the S&P 500 to represent common or systematic risk factors.

Covariance

A measure indicating the relationship between two variables and how they move together or apart from each other, used in finance to measure how the returns of two securities are related.

Factor Model

A way of decomposing the factors that influence a security’s rate of return into common (systematic) and firm-specific influences.