The portfolio risk is the risk of a collection of investments where the risk of each investment to some degree offsets the risk of the others. Explain how to measure the risk of a portfolio. Risk is measured by dispersion of outcomes or the standard deviation or variance. Define the concepts of corporate risk and market risk. Corporate risk is the equivalent of portfolio risk in a business context.
Market risk is the risk contribution of a project to a well-diversified portfolio.
In corporate risk, the portfolio is defined as the collection of projects held within a business. In market risk, the portfolio is defined as the collection of projects held within a well-diversified stock portfolio. The only difference is in what defines the portfolio. LO10.20 Explain the concept of corporate beta. A project with the same risk as the market earns a 1.0.