In: Finance
What are the core differences between Market Risk and Price Risk?
Answer-
Market risk is a systematic risk that causes losses to the investors due to adverse risk for financial markets due to turmoils caused by recessions, political unstability, natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes etc and changes in interest rates, exchange rates and inflation.
The various types of market risks are
currency risk, equity risk, currency risk and commodity risk.
Price risk is the risk which causes the price or value of the stock
or investment portfolio to decrease.
Market risk cannot be eliminated by diversification
whereas Price risk can be eliminated by diversification of stocks
or portfolio.
Market risk is a systematic risk or cannot be diversified whereas
Price risk is unsystematic risk or can be diversified.
Market risk effects the overall market and most of the stocks
across sectors whereas price risk is confined to very few stocks in
portfolio or a single stock.
The investor can use various tools and techniques to hedge Price risk which range from making conservative decisions like buying put options to more aggressive strategies like short selling, whereas the Market risk cannot be hedged and cannot be contained in the event of market turmoil.