markets Capital (economics) – Already-produced durable goods that are used in production of goods or services Capital asset pricing model – Finance model linking The following outline provides an overview and topical guide to finance: Finance – the field concerned with how individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and manage monetary resources over time, while accounting for the risks associated with their activities and investments. Portfolio optimization Risk return ratio Risk–return spectrum Economic efficiency Efficient-market hypothesis Random walk hypothesis Utility maximization problem Markowitz model Merton's portfolio problem Kelly criterion Roy's safety-first criterion Theory and results (derivation of the CAPM) Equilibrium price Market price Systematic risk Risk factor (finance) Idiosyncratic risk / Specific risk Mean-variance analysis (Two-moment decision model) Efficient frontier (Mean variance efficiency) Feasible set Mutual fund separation theorem Separation property (finance) Tangent portfolio Market portfolio Beta (finance) Fama–MacBeth regression Hamada's equation Capital structure substitution theory § Beta Capital allocation line Capital market line Security characteristic line Capital asset pricing model Single-index model Security market line Roll's critique Related measures Alpha (finance) Sharpe ratio Treynor ratio Jensen's alpha Optimization models Markowitz model Treynor–Black model Equilibrium pricing models (CAPM and extensions) Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) Consumption-based capital asset pricing model (CCAPM) Intertemporal CAPM (ICAPM) Single-index model Multiple factor models (see Risk factor (finance)) Fama–French three-factor model Carhart four-factor model Arbitrage pricing theory (APT)