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What is systematic risk?

Market-wide risk from forces such as interest rates, inflation, recessions, and capital-market conditions. It cannot be diversified away and, under CAPM, is the risk that earns a market return premium.

Where you will use it: this term comes up in the Real Estate Finance course, and the full course glossary collects every term in one place.

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From the free Real Estate Finance course by Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA.