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market portfolio


Definition
A concept used in Modern Portfolio Theory which refers to a hypothetical portfolio containing every security available to investors in a given market in amounts proportional to their market values.

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Active Investors and Transaction CostsActive investors, as a group, must by definition underperform a strategy that passively holds a market portfolio of stocks, since active investors incur greater transaction costs. The reduced liquidi ... Read more


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