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Company specific risk is also known as ________.

A. Market risk

B. Systematic risk

C. Non-diversifiable risk

D. Idiosyncratic risk

Answer: Option D

Solution(By Examveda Team)

Idiosyncratic risk, also known as unsystematic risk or residual risk or diversifiable risk, is risk that is not correlated to overall market risk – it is the risk of price change caused by the unique circumstances of a particular security, or the risk that is sector-specific or company-specific.

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Comments ( 2 )

  1. Raouf Luck
    Raouf Luck :
    4 years ago

    Company specific risk is also known as diversifiable risk. Company risk is the financial uncertainty faced by an investor who holds securities in a specific firm.

  2. Laxman Agarwal
    Laxman Agarwal :
    4 years ago

    Idiosyncratic risk is a type of investment risk that is endemic to an individual asset (like a particular company's stock), or a group of assets (like a particular sector's stocks), or in some cases, a very specific asset class (like collateralized mortgage obligations). Answer should be D.

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