Lecture 6 Flashcards

1
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Is there a positive relationship between volatility and average returns for individual stocks

A

yes

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2
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What are the difference between larger stocks and smaller stocks

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Larger stocks tend to have lower volatility

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3
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What is market risk (systematic or non diversifiable)

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It’s the risk that comes from the whole market and sticks around even if you try really hard to spread your investments around.

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4
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Firm Specific risk (diversifiable or non systematic)

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Risk that can be removed by diversification

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5
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What are the characteristics of firm specific risk

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  • Projects may do better or be worse
  • Competition may be stronger or weaker
  • Entire sector may be affected
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6
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Characteristics of market risk

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  • Exchange rate and political risk
  • Interest rate, inflation, news about economy
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7
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What are portfolio weights

A

Fraction of the total investment in the portfolio in each individual investment

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8
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What is portfolio return

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Weighted average of returns on the investment in the portfolio

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9
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What is expected portfolio return

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Weighted average of the expected return

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10
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What is the volatility of a two stock portfolio

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  • Reduction of risk bc of diversification
  • Amount of risk eliminated depends on the degree where the stock face common risks and price movement
  • Finding the risk involve finding where the stock returns move together
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11
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What is the covariance of a portfolio

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Expected product of the deviations of two returns from their means

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12
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What happens when the covariance is positive

A

Stocks move together

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13
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What happens when the covariance is negative

A

Stocks move in opposite directions

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14
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What is correlation

A

Standardize measure for covariance

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15
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What happens when correlation is less than 1

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SD of a portfolio will always be less than the weighted average of the asset SD

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16
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What is the minimum variance portfolio

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Portfolio composed of risky assets that has the smallest standard devision and the portfolio with least risk

17
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Characteristics of risk reduction

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R = 1; no risk
R= 0; Variance may be less than the standard deviation of either component asset
R = >1; Riskless hedge is possible

18
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What must be included in the portfolio of a risky asset

A

Return and risk

19
Q

What is the criteria to choose the optimal risky portfolio

A

Compare portfolios based on their expected returns and sd

20
Q

What is the mean variance frontier

A

Taking every possible combination of risky asset and find a portfolio that has the least SD

21
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What is efficient frontier

A
  • Best portfolios have the higher expected return for any sd and its the upper part of the curve
22
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What is the mean variance portfolio

A

The combination of individual securities that have the lowest variance

23
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Where do the efficient portfolio lie

A

Above the minimum variance portfolio

24
Q

What are the characteristics of short sale

A
  • Restrictions of weights = WA + WB = 1
  • This allows for negative proportions
  • Frontiers extend at both ends indefinitely
25
Q

What happens when we expand our investment choices to include a risk free asset

A

Investment opportunity set increases

26
Q

What yields the CAL

A

Risky free asset and a risky portfolio

27
Q

What is the best CAL to achieve

A

Highest slope with our investment opportunity set which will ultimately intersect the efficient frontier of two risky assets at a tangency point

28
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What does the best CAL involve

A

A portfolio that contains some allocation between the risk free asset and best risky asset portfolioW

29
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What is the risky asset portfolio called

A

Optimal risky portfolio

30
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What is the CML

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Specific CAL where risk free rate = T-bill and optimal risky portfolio is given broad based index of common stocks known as the Market portfolio

31
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What is the theory behind CML

A

Steepest of all CALs

32
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What does the Two Fund Separation state

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Portfolio choice can be divided into two independent tasks

33
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What are the two independent tasks of the Two Fund Seperation

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  1. Identification of the optimal risky portfolio; demonstrating efficient diversification
  2. Allocation choice between optimal risky portfolio and risk free rate; demonstrating different allocation for investors with different levels of risk aversion