The document discusses key financial concepts including:
1) The primary goal of financial management is maximizing shareholder wealth through stock price appreciation. This is achieved by forecasting, investment decisions, coordination, and managing risk.
2) Risk is the probability that investment returns differ from expectations. There are various types of risk including market, business, liquidity, exchange rate, country, and interest rate risk.
3) Portfolio risk is determined not just by the risk of individual holdings, but also their covariance—how their returns move together. A portfolio's risk can be lower than its components' risks through diversification.