| Article ID: | iaor201522680 |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 27 |
| End Page Number: | 38 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1982 |
| Journal: | Journal of Financial Research |
| Authors: | Lloyd William P, Goldstein Steven J |
| Keywords: | simulation, investment |
Variability may be measured around the long‐run market return by combining the well‐developed area of security diversification with the notion of time diversification. This non‐traditional concept of diversifiable risk is illustrated with results of a very large scale simulation. The results are very general since the data used in the simulation consist of all firms on the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) monthly return file from January 1926 through December 1977.