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Non-transferable risks are risks which must be borne by an organisation.  
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Non-transferable risks might be avoided or accepted and retained or reduced as appropriate. In the case of non-transferable business risks (which by definition are not avoided) it is important that the firm has a distinctive competence in the relevant areas.  
An index made up of the common stock (share) prices of 500 large companies actively traded in the US stock markets.


For example, a pharmaceutical company's non-transferable risks would include the risk that failure to gain approval for use of a new drug means that the research and development costs have been wasted.


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The 500 companies whose stocks are included in the index.




== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Transferable risk]]
* [[Standard & Poor's ]]
*[[FTSE]]
* [[Fortune 500]]
* [[Index numbers]]
* [[Tracker fund]]
 
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Latest revision as of 15:08, 17 August 2021

US.

1.

An index made up of the common stock (share) prices of 500 large companies actively traded in the US stock markets.


2.

The 500 companies whose stocks are included in the index.


See also