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Who Developed CAPM?

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Sharpe (1964), Lintner (1965) and Mossin (1966).

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What is the CAPM used for?

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Describing the relationship between expected returns and risk

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Key assumptions of the CAPM?

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  1. Competitive and frictionless market.
    2.Investors are mean-variance optimisers
  2. Risk-free lending and borrowing available.
    4.Homogenous beliefs
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What’s the point in diversifying a portfolio?

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When you diversify a portfolio you eliminate the unique risk.

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CAPM gives us a way to measure what?

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Systematic risk.
Every asset pricing model will give you a way of estimating systematic risk.

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What does it mean for Markets to be competitive and frictionless?

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Investors are price takers
No trading costs

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What does it mean if buyers in the market are Price takers?

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Implies that investors cant manipulate prices

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What is a Frictionless market?

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NO taxes
NO portfolio constraints
NO trading costs
Unlimited short selling

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What does it mean “Investors are mean variance optimizers”?

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Investors select a portfolio that gives them the maximum expected return for a given level of risk

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What does it mean if there are risk free assets?

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The investor can either borrow or can lend at the risk-free rate.

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Risk- free asset example

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Treasury bills
Government bonds

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Risk-free asset implication

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The investment in that asset will have a minimal risk of default

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What is the Capital market line (CML)?

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The line representing the risk-return tradeoff of efficient portfolios combining the risk-free asset and the market portfolio.

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What is the tangency portfolio in CAPM?

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The tangency portfolio m must be the Market Portfolio.
If average risk you would pick this portfolio.

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What determines an investors portfolio on the CML?

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Their risk tolerance. If higher risk aversion you’re further down the line near the y axis

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What portfolio do investors pick?

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Every investor will pick a portfolio on the efficient frontier which is known as the CML

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What are Homogenous beliefs in terms of portfolio management?

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All investors have identical beliefs about u and V. Expected returns and covariance matrix.

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Two conditions in equilibrium

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  1. Every investor holds an optimal portfolio (Every investor has maximized their utility)
  2. demand=supply
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What is the market portfolio?

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The overall market of all investable assets, weighted by their market capitalization.

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What defines the market portfolio?

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It includes all risky assets
Value weighted portfolio

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Value weighted portfolio

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A value-weighted portfolio is a portfolio where:

Each asset’s weight is proportional to its total market value relative to the total value of all assets combined.

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First main prediction of the CAPM

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The market portfolio (see graph).
all other results for the CAPM follow from the market portfolio

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In equilibrium all investors hold cash and the market. what can be derived from this?

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The Security market line

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What is the security market line (SML)

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A line that shows the expected return of an asset as a function of its beta with the market

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What does the beta measure?
A measure of systematic risk. A linear relation how sensitive the return of the asset is to the returns in the market portfolio.
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When the market portfolio lies on the efficient frontier other portfolios lie where?
Every portfolio will lie on the security market line (SML)
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What kind of risk is rewarded in the CAPM?
Only systematic risk, not idiosyncratic risk.
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Second main prediction of the CAPM
The SML (security market line)
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What is the market portfolios beta?
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Beta > 1
Aggressive stock - bigger impact on returns (small firms). If the market goes up invest here.
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Beta < 1
Defensive stock - move less than changes in the market index. If the market falls invest here
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How is expected return used in practise?
For cost of equity, fund performance, and portfolio construction.
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If CAPM was true
Only the market beta explains why expected returns vary across stocks.
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Implication of CAPM being true.
You only get higher returns from taking on more systematic risk. Firm specific risk (idiosyncratic) receives no reward.
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According to the CAPM, do stock characteristics impact expected returns once you control for market beta?
No, CAPM implies that only market beta explains expected returns; stock characteristics have no additional impact.
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What drives stock returns?
Returns =f(systematic risk) + f(characteristics). Risk and stock characteristics. According to CAPM its only risk.
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Why is the SML useful?
Practical applications: 1.Cost of equity capital estimations 2.Evaluate fund performance 3.Building optimal portfolios
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When estimating the expected return using SML we assume?
Expected market returns and market betas are constant throughout time.
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Estimation risk problem?
Using the past to predict the future. We don't know what the true values are in the future. Predictions may be good but more likely than no they will be very poor.
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Issues with the CAPM model
1. Can we identify the market portfolio? 2. Poor empirical performance 3. Do mean-variance efficient frontiers have portfolios with all positive weights
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Issues identifying the market portfolio (Roll Critique) (Roll(1977))
CAPM is not testable since the market portfolio cannot be observed. Most studies use stock market index as a proxy.
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2. Poor empirical performance
The standard CAPM using stock market index as a proxy tends to perform poorly in explaining cross-sectional stock returns
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Fama and French (1992) beta
Find no relation between average returns and betas in U.S stock returns.
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What helps explain average returns beyond market betas
Stock characteristics
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Despite CAPM’s poor empirical performance, what support do Harvey and Liu (2020) provide?
They support the inclusion of the market index in linear factor models, noting it appears in every single factor model.
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3. The market portfolio only included positive weights
It implies the CAPM can be rejected, as the market portfolio (which has all positive weights) would not lie on the efficient frontier.

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