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Description: Beta is a risk metric employed primarily in the equity markets. It measures the systematic risk of a single instrument or an entire portfolio. William Sharpe (1964) first used the notion in his landmark paper introducing the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). The name "beta" was applied later.

Keywords: beta portfolio theory capital asset pricing model CAPM Sharpe Markowitz

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