Midterm 2 Flashcards

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What is Expected Return measured by?

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by mean (average)

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What is Risk measured by?

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by variance or standard deviation

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Unsystematic Risk

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unique, diversifiable risk, due to each stock’s individual risk (variance)

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Systematic Risk

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market, undiversifiable risk, due to + covariance among stocks (which is due to the business cycle)

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Market Portfolio

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contains all the risky assets in the market, and is diversified to the largest extent (contains 100% market risk)

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What is the measure for systematic risk?

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Beta

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What does Beta measure exactly?

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a stock’s tendency to move together with the market

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What does the Capital Allocation Line (CAL) represent?

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all possible portfolio combinations of the risky asset (A), and the risk-free asset (rf)

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What does the CAL’s slope equal to?

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the sharpe ratios of the portfolios

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What does the Sharpe Ratio measure?

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it measures the excess return for each unit of risk (also called reward-to-variability ratio)

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Is choosing a CAL portfolio a technical or preference choice?

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a technical choice, because you’ll always want a higher sharpe ratio, because it provides a better return with lower risk

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the smaller the correlation?

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the better diversification can be achieved

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13
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Minimum Variance Portfolio (MVP) occurs when:

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correlation = -1 and variance/std. deviation = 0 (no risk)

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What does it mean for a portfolio to be dominated?

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when it’s inefficient compared to another portfolio; same risk but lower expected return

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15
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What is the efficient frontier of risky assets?

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portfolios above the MVP

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What is the efficient frontier of risky assets and a risk-free asset?

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the tangent line (tangent portfolio = optimal risky portfolio)

17
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The optimal risky portfolio:

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has the highest sharpe ratio

18
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Two-fund separation by Tobin

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  1. figure out the tangent portfolio (technical process)
  2. choose a mix of rf and the tangent portfolio depending on risk preference (personal process)
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Assumptions of CAPM

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  • perfect capital markets
  • investors are mean-variance optimizers
  • investors have same assets and can borrow at the risk-free rate
  • homogeneous expectations
  • single-period investment horizons
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Principle Result (conclusion) of CAPM

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  • the market portfolio is an efficient portfolio
  • given the same efficient frontier, all investors will hold the same tangent portfolio (the market portfolio)
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What are the two implications of the efficiency of the market portfolio (CAPM)

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  1. every investor is fully diversified with a mix of the market portfolio and the risk-free asset
  2. as risk (Beta) increases, return increases
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Capital Market Line (CML)

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the tangent CAL when the optimal portfolio is the market portfolio

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Security Market Line (SML)

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graphically represents the CAPM formula
- plotted in beta/return space
- reflects that only systematic market risk should be priced

24
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What’re the 3 applications of CAPM?

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pricing of non-traded assets, capital budgeting, and performance evaluation

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What does CAPM provide when pricing non-traded assets?
a discount rate to do DCF analysis
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What does CAPM provide when capital budgeting?
the required rate of return, or the hurdle return
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How to operationalize CAPM?
1. Define a risk-free asset such as T-Bills 2. Select a market index or benchmark 3. Derive estimates of asset betas 4. Use linear regression (Security Characteristic Line)
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What is the slope of the Security Characteristic Line?
Beta
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What is the intersection of the Security Characteristic Line?
Alpha
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What do perfect capital markets imply?
no transaction costs, no taxes, information is symmetric; investors are price takers
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Covariance =
correlation x std. dev. (A) x std. dev. (B)
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According to CAPM, what will not impact the risk premium that a particular investor X will require for a particular stock Y?
the risk aversion of X