Who Did This Work and What Would It Come to Influence

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Essay

Who did this work and what would it come to influence?

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Definitions:

Systematic Risk

Systematic risk is the part of an investment's risk that is attributable to factors that affect the entire market or asset class, such as economic, political, or natural events, and cannot be eliminated through diversification.

Security Characteristic Line

A graphical representation of the expected return of an asset as a function of the return on the market portfolio, illustrating the asset's systematic risk.

Excess Return

The return achieved by an asset that exceeds the risk-free rate of return.

Excess Returns

Excess returns refer to the returns achieved above a benchmark or a risk-free rate of return.