Questions about the Risk, Return & Diversification poster

What’s on the Risk, Return & Diversification poster?

Specific risk against Systematic risk, side by side. Specific risk: Affects one firm or industry; Specific risk: Strike, recall, lost contract; Specific risk: Diversifiable away; Specific risk: Not rewarded by the market; Specific risk: Largely gone by 20-30 holdings; Systematic risk: Affects the whole market; Systematic risk: Interest rates, recession, war; Systematic risk: Cannot be diversified away; Systematic risk: Rewarded with a risk premium; Systematic risk: Measured by beta; Diversification is close to a free lunch: it removes specific risk at no cost in expe…. Correlation matters more than the number of holdings. Twenty assets in one sector are barely diversified.

Who is the Risk, Return & Diversification poster for?

Risk, Return & Diversification belongs to the Accounting & Finance section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning corporate finance can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Risk, Return & Diversification poster?

Combining imperfectly correlated assets reduces risk without reducing expected return. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Risk, Return & Diversification belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Risk, Return & Diversification?

CAPM, Behavioural Finance and Capital Structure sit alongside Risk, Return & Diversification in the Accounting & Finance section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.CAPMBehavioural FinanceCapital Structure

Is the Risk, Return & Diversification poster free to download and print?

Yes. Risk, Return & Diversification downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Accounting & Finance section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Risk, Return & Diversification poster print at?

Risk, Return & Diversification is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Risk, Return & Diversification loses nothing.Printing guide