That is, the risk of a portfolio of loans is less than the sum of individual risks

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That is, the risk of a portfolio of loans is less than the sum of individual risks of each loan because individual loans’ risks are not perfectly correlated with each other. The lower the degree of correlation among loans’ risks, the lower the risk of a loan portfolio.

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Financial Markets And Institutions

ISBN: 9781259919718

7th Edition

Authors: Anthony Saunders, Marcia Cornett

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