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Corporate Finance Lecture 5: Risk and Return | Finance Train

Lesson 5 of 26

Corporate Finance Lecture 5: Risk and Return

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This video is a part of online course on Corporate Finance by Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU.

This video discusses:

Risk and Return Models
The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Mean-Variance Framework
Importance of Diversification
Risk: Diversifiable or not?
Effects of Diversification
Marginal Investor
Analyzing Investor Bases
The Market Portfolio
Risk of an Individual Asset
Limits of CAPM