This document provides an overview of risk and return concepts in investments. It discusses that return is the primary motivation for investing, while risk refers to the possibility that the actual return deviates from the expected return. Risk is divided into unsystematic and systematic risk. Portfolio risk can be reduced through diversification even though the risk of individual securities is not reduced. The Security Market Line models the relationship between risk and return, where the expected return of an asset is equal to the risk-free rate plus its beta multiplied by the expected market return above the risk-free rate.