WHAT IS BETA ?

[jagadeeshwaran]

A beta is a risk a raising measure to exposure market portfolio of all assets

[Vishnu varadhan]

• A quantitative measure of the volatility of a given stock,mutual fund or portfolio,relative to the overall market.
• The performance of the stock,fund or portfolio has experienced in the last 5 years as the S&P moved 1% up and down.

[arul]

BETA is a measure of the volatility,or systematic risk,of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole

[vaishali]

Beta is a measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. Beta is used in the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), a model that calculates the expected return of an asset based on its beta and expected market returns.

[Manikandan]

This volatility measure is supposes to give you some sense of how far the fund will fall if the market takes a dive and how  high the fund will rise if the bull starts to climb.

a fund with beta greater than 1 is considered more volatile than the market.less than 1 means less volatile.

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