What is the difference between covariance and correlation? Why are these concepts so important in portfolio analysis?

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What is the difference between covariance and correlation? Why are these concepts so important in portfolio analysis?

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A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Real Estate Finance and Investments

ISBN: 978-0073377339

14th edition

Authors: William Brueggeman, Jeffrey Fisher

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