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Specific Risk

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Specific Risk
Risk that affects a very small number of assets. This is sometimes referred to as "unsystematic risk."

Notes:
An example would be news that is specific to either one stock or a small number of stocks, such as a sudden strike by the employees of a company you have shares in or a new governmental regulation affecting a particular group of companies.

Unlike systematic risk or market risk, specific risk can be diversified away.


Specific risk


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