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This lesson is a part of the course Probability Concepts
Expected value is an important concept in investments. An investor will make use of expected value to estimate the expected returns from their portfolio or to assess other factors such as financial ratios.
We can use a random variable to describe asset returns. The expected value of a random variable is defined as the weighted average of all possible outcomes of the random variable. The weights are the probabilities of each outcome.
