Words: 893 Recently‚ one of my good friend has inherited ￡20‚000 and wants to invest this amount of money in financial market‚ in other words‚ she is planning to buy some financial products such as equities‚ bonds and currencies. She has asked me for some guidance. In my opinion‚ I think diversifying portfolio would be the best way to get a higher return. In this essay‚ I will explain the concept and benefits of diversification in financial markets. However‚ even with a diversified portfolio of
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a consisted trade off between risk and reward. In finance‚ It is used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset‚ if that asset is to be added to an already well-diversified portfolio‚ given that asset’s non-diversifiable risk. The CAPM says that the expected return of a security or a portfolio equals the rate on a risk-free security plus a risk premium. If this expected return does not meet or beat the required return‚ then the investment should not be undertaken
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[pic] [pic] Ethan Cromartie Risk & Return Analysis BUS 505 Corporate Finance Certificate of Authorship: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that nay assistance received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any source from which data‚ words‚ or ideas either quoted directly or paraphrased has been used. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course Ethan
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ARBITRAGE PRICING THEORY ( APT ) Originally developed by Stephen A. Ross. The CAPM predicts that security rates of return will be linearly related to a single common factor : ----- the rate of return on the market portfolio. The APT is based on a similar approach but assumes the rate of return on a security to be sensitive to a number of factors. Market equilibrium is driven by individuals eliminating arbitrage
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Types of Risk Unfortunately‚ the concept of risk is not a simple concept in finance. There are many different types of risk identified and some types are relatively more or relatively less important in different situations and applications. In some theoretical models of economic or financial processes‚ for example‚ some types of risks or even all risk may be entirely eliminated. For the practitioner operating in the real world‚ however‚ risk can never be entirely eliminated. It is ever-present
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Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models Portfolio Theory Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Efficient frontier Capital Market Line (CML) Security Market Line (SML) Beta calculation Arbitrage pricing theory Fama-French 3-factor model Portfolio Theory • Suppose Asset A has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 20 percent. Asset B has an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 40 percent. If the correlation between A and B is 0.6
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(CAPM) .The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is the standard risk-return model used by most academicians and practitioners. The important concept of CAPM is that investors are rewarded for only that portion of risk which is not diversifiable. This non-diversifiable risk is termed as beta‚ to which expected returns are linked. Problems can arise when using the CAPM to calculate a project-specific discount rate. For example‚ one common difficulty is finding suitable proxy betas‚ since proxy companies
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Week 4 Assignment 4 MGM 6620 Managerial Finance Professor: Manuel V. Sicre Student Name: Zoraya Sandoval 01/28/2012 Chapter #11 11.1 Diversifiable and Nondiversifiable Risks. In broad terms‚ why is some risk diversifiable? Why are some risks nondiversifiable? Does it follow that an investor can control the level of unsystematic risk in a portfolio‚ but not the level of systematic risk? Some of the risk in holding any asset is unique to the asset in question. By investing in
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Corporate Valuation Problem Set 2 Dr. Zacharias Sautner If no information about the premium has been given in the questions below‚ you can use the data form the following table: Arithmetic average Geometric Average Stocks ‐ Stocks ‐ Stocks ‐ Stocks ‐ Historical Period T.Bills T.Bonds T.Bills T.Bonds 1928‐2004 7.92% 6.53% 6.02% 4.84% 1964‐2004 5.82% 4.34% 4.59% 3.47% 1994‐2004 8.60% 5.82% 6.85% 4.51% For
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is about to launch a new product. Depending on the success of the new product‚ Gladstone may have one of four values next year: $150 million‚ $135 million‚ $95 million‚ and $80 million. These outcomes are all equally likely‚ and this risk is diversifiable. Gladstone will not make any payouts to investors during the year. Suppose the risk-free interest rate is 5% and assume perfect capital markets. a. What is the initial value of Gladstone’s equity without leverage? Now suppose Gladstone
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