This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- Systematic risk, also known as market risk, is non-diversifiable and impacts the entire market through factors like interest rates and inflation.

- Unsystematic risk is unique to a specific company or industry and can be significantly reduced through diversification.

- Beta is the specific metric used to measure a security's systematic risk, or volatility, in relation to the overall market.

- Diversification is the key strategy to mitigate unsystematic risk, but it does not protect against systematic risk.

- The exam will test your ability to differentiate between business risk (operational issues) and financial risk (debt-related issues), both of which are types of unsystematic risk.

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