A client's brokerage statement reflects a noticeable drop in total valuation following a sudden macroeconomic adjustment that triggered a broad sell-off across all equities. The client's portfolio is spread evenly across thirty well-established companies in different industries. Which of the following statements correctly explains why portfolio diversification did not prevent this decline?
- The portfolio was impacted by market risk, a form of systematic risk that affects the entire financial system and cannot be diversified away.Cevap
- BThe portfolio was impacted by nonsystematic risk, which could have been eliminated entirely by adding ten more domestic equity positions.
- CThe portfolio was impacted by credit risk, which occurs when issuing corporations fail to make timely dividend payments.
- DThe portfolio was impacted by interest rate risk, which causes stock market prices to rise in direct proportion to benchmark interest rate increases.
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The decline was caused by market risk, which is a systematic risk factor that impacts the broad market and cannot be mitigated through asset diversification alone.
Market risk is a primary subtype of systematic risk. Because systematic risk stems from broad economic events affecting the entire market, constructing a diversified equity portfolio does not protect an investor from broad market downturns.
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Systematic risk (market risk) affects the overall market and cannot be eliminated through portfolio diversification.