Beta Is Defined As

question 82

Multiple Choice

Beta is defined as:

• A) a measure of volatility of a security's returns relative to the returns of a broad-based market portfolio of securities.
• B) the ratio of the variance of market returns to the covariance of returns on a security with the market
• C) the inverse of the slope of the security regression line
• D) all of the above

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