Legg Mason Financials

Please note that you must use caution to infer results of funds future performance. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate so that investors' shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

Legg Mason's systematic risk plays a vital role in portfolio allocation when considering its stock to be added to a well-diversified portfolio. Legg Mason volatility which cannot be eliminated through diversification, requires returns over the risk-free rate. Over the long run, a well-diversified portfolio provides returns that match its exposure to systematic risk. In this case, investors face a trade-off between expected returns and systematic risk and, therefore, can only reduce a portfolio's exposure to systematic risk by sacrificing expected returns on the portfolio.

The output start index for this execution was five with a total number of output elements of fifty-six. The Beta measures systematic risk based on how returns on Legg Mason Partners correlated with the market. If Beta is less than 0 Legg Mason generally moves in the opposite direction as compared to the market. If Legg Mason Beta is about zero movement of price series is uncorrelated with the movement of the benchmark. if Beta is between zero and one Legg Mason Partners is generally moves in the same direction as, but less than the movement of the market. For Beta = 1 movement of Legg Mason is generally in the same direction as the market. If Beta > 1 Legg Mason moves generally in the same direction as, but more than the movement of the benchmark.