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In broad terms, why are some risks diversifiable? Why are some risks non-diversifiable? Does it follow that an investor can control the level of unsystematic risk in a portfolio, but not the level of systematic risk? Substantiate your answer with real world examples.
Some risk are diversifiable and some are not. Risk which is
diversifiable is in our controls eg Management conflict, labour
issue and which is not diversifiable are Interest rate risk which
has to face by every industy.
Investor can only control the UnSystematic risk not the
Sytematic risk, this statement is True
Undiversifable risk - It is a risk refers to market risk,
or market segment risk. This risk cannot be eliiminated by
diversification, this is also called a systematic
risk.
Examples are - Chnage in interest rate, natural disaster , economic
recession.
All companies are effected by these whether a comapny has good
financial or not.
Unsystematic Risk - It is a risk refers to a
certain industry, uncertainity happen to a
particular company, this can be reduced by way of diversification,
this is also called a diversifiable risk.
Examples are - Loss due to Labour problems, management issue
etc.
This risk can only effect this industry.