Whois & Analysis for ark-invest.com

A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leading firms, products and alliances.

The term was defined and phenomenon analyzed by Clayton M.

Christensen beginning in 1995.

In the early 2000s, "significant societal impact" has also been used as an aspect of disruptive innovation.

Capital appreciation is an increase in the price or value of assets.

It may refer to appreciation of company stocks or bonds held by an investor, an increase in land valuation, or other upward revaluation of fixed assets.

To invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future.

Economic growth is the increase in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time.

It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP, usually in per capita terms.

Alpha is a measure of the active return on an investment, the performance of that investment compared with a suitable market index.

An alpha of 1% means the investment's return on investment over a selected period of time was 1% better than the market during that same period; an alpha of -1 means the investment underperformed the market.

Alpha, along with beta, is one of two key coefficients in the capital asset pricing model used in modern portfolio theory and is closely related to other important quantities such as standard deviation, R.squared and the Sharpe ratio.