correlation risk

correlation risk definition - finance
The probability that the actual correlation between two assets or variables will be different from the correlation that was assumed. As a result, the portfolio could be riskier than anticipated.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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