Question

Bad managerial judgments or unforeseen negative events that happen to a firm are defined as "company-specific," or "unsystematic," events, and their effects on investment risk cannot in theory be diversified away. T/F

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is True.

Explanation:

Non-systematic risk, also known as "diversifiable risk", encompasses the set of factors of a company or industry, and that affect only the profitability of its stock or bond. For this reason they cannot be diversified.

In other words, the non-systematic risk arises from the uncertainty surrounding a company due to the development of its business, either due to the company's own circumstances or those of the sector to which it belongs. Examples of these events can be bad business results, the signing of a large contract, worse than expected sales data, a new product of the competition, discovery of fraud within the company, a bad management of its managers, etc.