Stock market index Stock market index is an indicator that is designed to reflect the performance of an entire market or a particular market segment. Indexes have many uses in investments: --allow us to quickly and easily assess market performance; --Serve as underlying securities for futures and options contracts;
INVESTMENTS Individhual assets and frontier portfolio So far we have learned: 1. Investor hold portfolios to reduce risk. \Non-systematic risks\ of individual assets does not matter. only \systematic risks\matter. 2. Investors hold only frontier portfolios. The natural questions to ask next are: