What Are Unascertained Goods

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Essay

What are unascertained goods?

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Definitions:

Portfolio Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion of the returns of a portfolio, indicating its risk.

Individual Security

A specific financial instrument, such as a stock or bond, representing an investment in assets or rights to ownership.

Covariance

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two variables change together; if the covariance is positive, the variables move together, while a negative covariance means they move inversely.

Securities' Returns

The profit or loss derived from investing in a security, including dividends, interest, and capital gains.