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Shinsei Bank Beta

What is the Beta of Shinsei Bank?

The Beta of Shinsei Bank, Ltd. is 0.18

What is the definition of Beta?



BETA indicates whether a stock is more or less volatile than the market as a whole. A beta less than 1 indicates that the stock is less volatile than the market, while a beta more than 1 indicates that the stock is more volatile. Volatility is measured as the fluctuation of the price around the mean.

Beta is a measure of the risk arising from exposure to general market movements as opposed to idiosyncratic factors. The market portfolio of all investable assets has a beta of exactly 1. A beta below 1 can indicate either an investment with lower volatility than the market, or a volatile investment whose price movements are not highly correlated with the market. A beta greater than one generally means that the asset both is volatile and tends to move up and down with the market. Beta is important because it measures the risk of an investment that cannot be reduced by diversification. It does not measure the risk of an investment held on a stand-alone basis, but the amount of risk the investment adds to an already-diversified portfolio. In the capital asset pricing model, beta risk is the only kind of risk for which investors should receive an expected return higher than the risk-free rate of interest.

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What does Shinsei Bank do?

Shinsei Bank, Limited provides various banking and financial products and services to individual customers, businesses, public corporations, and financial institutions in Japan. It offers Yen/foreign currency deposits, and structured deposits; home mortgages; and housing and unsecured loans, real estate related nonrecourse finance and corporate finance, ship finance, healthcare, and project finance, specialty finance, M&A-related, and renewable energy finance. The company also provides investment trusts, brokerage, life and non-life insurance, advisory, credit trading, private equity, business succession finance, and asset-backed investment services, as well as credit cards. In addition, it engages in the provision of financial transactions and services for individuals; trust businesses; foreign exchange, derivatives, equity-related, and other capital markets businesses; payment services; and securities, asset management, and wealth management businesses. The company was formerly known as The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Limited and changed its name to Shinsei Bank, Limited in June 2000. Shinsei Bank, Limited was incorporated in 1952 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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