Explain how a shareholder can, without knowing the future, diversify away the unsystematic risk of your company's stock potentially suffering a return that unexpectedly turns out to equal the expected return in c.1 minus 98%. expected return from c.1 was 9.84%

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Explain how a shareholder can, without knowing the future, diversify away the unsystematic risk of your company's stock potentially suffering a return that unexpectedly turns out to equal the expected return in c.1 minus 98%.

expected return from c.1 was 9.84%

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Diversification is a strategy that involves spreading investments across different assets or securities to reduce the overall risk of an investment portfolio. By investing in a range of different securities, a shareholder can reduce their exposure to the unsystematic risk of any one particular security.

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