Market Neutral
An investment strategy or portfolio is considered market-neutral if it seeks to entirely avoid some form of market risk, typically by hedging. In order to evaluate market-neutrality, it is first necessary to specify the risk being avoided. For example, convertible arbitrage attempts to fully hedge fluctuations in the price of the underlying common stock.
A portfolio is truly market-neutral if it exhibits zero correlation with the unwanted source of risk. Market neutrality is an ideal, which is seldom possible in practice. A portfolio which appears to be market-neutral may exhibit unexpected correlations as market conditions change. The risk of this occurring is called basis risk.
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