Calculation - Investment Flashcards
Joe bought stock @ 50, on 75% initial margin. Price fell to 40. What’s new margin position?
68.75
Bob bought stock at $50 per share, on initial margin 75% and maintenance margin 25%. What price is the margin call?
16.6667
B bought stock @ 50, on 75% initial margin and maintenance margin 35%. Price fell to $15. How much equity B must contribute?
2.75 per share
Assume SP mean return is 10%, SD 17%. What’s the probability of return less than -7%, -24% and -41% ?
16%, 2.5% and 0.5%
Calculate SD of stock A and B.
A return: 10%, 13%, 8%, -2%, 14%
B return: 6%, -3%, 4%, -5%, 7%
Which one is more risky?
A: 6.3875%
B: 5.4498%
A
Stock A: SD = 12%, Average Return = 10%
Stock B: SD = 8%, Average Return = 5%
Which one is more risky?
What formula to use?
Coefficient of Variation: SD / Average Return
Higher CV more risk
How does Covariance measures the interactive risk of 2 securities?
How price moves from 1 security in relation to the other.
Cov 1-2= SD1 * SD2 * Cor 1-2
Correlation Cor/ Correlation Efficiency
Measures what and how it’s measured?
Cor = (Cov 1-2) / ((SD1)(SD2))
+1 means 2 assets perfectly correlated, No diversification
0 means there is no relation between 2 assets
-1 means they are perfectly correlated
Diversification starts when Cor < 1
Beta measures what and how it’s measured?
It measures 1 security risk relative to the market.
Beta of bench market risk is: 1
If security Beta > 1, it means it’s more riskier than the market.
If its Beta < 1, it’s less riskier than the market.
Beta vs. SD, what’s the difference in measurements?
Beta measures Systematic, market risk
SD measures total risk
Beta1= Cov 1-m / (SD m ^2)
Or
Beta1= (Cor 1-m * SD1)/ SD m
Beta = R 1 / R m
CML Capital Market Line
How is it relate to CAPM? What does it measure?
It’s the macro aspect of CAPM
It’s the relationship between risk and return of ALL possible portfolios.
It’s NOT used to evaluate 1 security
It uses SD in calculation
SML Security Market Line
What does it measure and how is it different from CML?
It measures the risk and return as defined in CAPM formula.
If Rp > SML, it’s under valued, buy signal
If Return of portfolio < SML, over valued, do not buy
SML uses Beta, CML uses SD
SML calculation
Same as CAPM because it uses the same variables
Re = Rf + Beta(Rm-Rf)
If Rf is 3%, Beta is 1.5, market premium is 9%, what’s the Re (Expected Rate of Return)
16.5%
What’s Information Ratio measuring?
It measures Portfolio performance
Relative risk adjusted performance
It measures the excess return provided by a fund manager, relative to a benchmark. Higher IR the better.
IR = ( Rp- Rm)/ SD a
SD a is annualized SD
Large cap fund increased 12% while SP 500 increased 9.5%. Annualized SD is 15%
What’s the Information Ratio?
0.1667
Treynor Index
What does it measure?
It measures how much return was achieved per unit of risk defined by Beta.
Tp=(Rp - Rf) / Beta p
Which fund would you recommend? Use Treynor Index
Growth Fund: Beta 1.2, Rf 3%, actual return 12%
Index Fund: all same except actual return is 9%
0.075 vs 0.06
Sharpe Index
What does it measure?
It measures return per total risk, thus SD.
Sharpe = (Rp-Rf)/SD
Higher Sharpe the better
Jensen ‘s Alpha
What does it measure? How it measures it?
It measures Portfolio Managers performance.
Alpha = Rp - SML/CAPM
Rp - ((Rf+Beta p (Rm-Rf))
+Alpha means manager did better than market
-Alpha means manager did worse than market
D’s mutual fund returned 19% last year with Beta 2. Risk free 3%, market return 8%. SD 18%. What would you tell D about the performance? What ratio would you use and why or why not.
Can not use Treynor, Sharpe because there is not enough data for comparison assets. Jensen but Jensen is more straight forward.
R^2
When a portfolio is considered diversified
What ratio to use to judge performance
> 0.7 means more diversified, Beta, Treynor, Jensen should be used to measure recommendations
If it’s < 0.7, not diversified, SD, Sharpe should be used
Which fund would you recommend?
A: SD 12%, R^2 0.92, Alpha 2, Shape 1.2
B: SD 13%, R^2 0.90, Alpha 1.8, Sharpe 1.5
Since R^2 > 0.7, use Jensen or Treynor
Mutual fund r^2 0.64, which ratio is appropriate to measure the performance?
Sharpe because r^2 < 0.7