While the Portfolio Return Is a Weighted Average of Realized

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While the portfolio return is a weighted average of realized security returns, portfolio risk is not necessarily a weighted average of the standard deviations of the securities in the portfolio. It is this aspect of portfolios that allows investors to combine stocks and actually reduce the riskiness of a portfolio.

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Definitions:

LTPD

Lot Tolerance Percent Defective; the highest defect rate that can be considered acceptable during the random sampling of a lot for acceptance testing.