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A Sheet of Paper Can Be Withdrawn from Under a Bottle

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A sheet of paper can be withdrawn from under a bottle of milk without toppling the bottle if the paper is jerked out quickly. This is an example of ________.

Grasp the significance of diversification in reducing portfolio risk and understand the distinction between diversifiable and non-diversifiable risks.

Know how the security market line represents the relationship between risk (beta) and expected return and how it aids in determining if an investment is correctly priced.

Understand how to compute the expected return on a portfolio and the role of portfolio weights.

Recognize the importance of the correlation between stocks in a portfolio and its effect on portfolio variance.

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