Idiosyncratic risk refers to risks that are unique to an individual asset such as a company’s stock or a group of assets such as the stocks of a particular industry. Idiosyncratic risks are important ...

This paper uses about 26 million home sales to measure house price idiosyncratic risk for 7,580 U.S. zip codes during three periods: (1) when the U.S. housing market was stable (1996 to 2000), (2) ...

Goldman Sachs Equal Weight U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF aims to provide a more balanced exposure to large-cap stocks, reducing the impact of mega-cap Tech names. Equal-weight portfolios offer greater ...

Executive Summary.Researchers have extensively debated the relevance of idiosyncratic risk in determining asset returns. Merton (1987) suggests that investors would consider idiosyncratic risk ...

Two types of risks exist in the economy. One is aggregate risk, which affects the entire economy, and the other is idiosyncratic risk that individual economic agents face. Because they can be fully ...

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do. - Alex Berenson. The biotechnology sector has been a hotbed of innovation with companies in the industry pushing the ...

Although sales force downsizing represents a challenging marketing resource change that can signal uncertainty about future firm performance, little is known about its impact on financial-market ...

With investors sometimes struggling to find hedge funds that deliver uncorrelated, consistent returns, Sandbar Asset Management stands out from its peers. Its success in running an equity ...

Idiosyncratic risk has already increased across Europe due to higher M&A and LBO activity, combined with increased investor appetite for risk and abundant liquidity, all contributing to more ...