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In equilibrium:
Which portfolios should investors hold?
Which securities should investors hold?
Portfolio Variance and SD
1 average
variance
N
Risk Reduction in Equally-Weighted
Portfolios: The General Case
Suppose we have an equally weighted portfolio
(holding weights 1/N) of N stocks.
The variance of the portfolio return is:
N N N
1 2
2
2
p
N
i 1
i
2
N 2 cov(R , R )
i 1 ji
i j
1 1 N 2 1 1 N N
i 1 cov(R i , R j )
N N i 1 N N(N - 1)/2 i 1 ji
1 average 1 average
1
N variance N covariance
Risk in Equally-Weighted Portfolios:
The General Case
Time
Return
Time
Total versus Systematic Risk
Consider the following information:
Standard Deviation Beta
Security C 20% 1.25
Security K 30% 0.95
Which security has more total risk?
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ri
.
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20 Year rM ri
1 15% 18%
15
2 -5 -10
10 3 12 16
5
-5 0 5 10 15 20 rM
Regression line:
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-5 ^ ^
ri = -2.59 + 1.44 rM
-10
Finding Beta in Excel
Coca-Cola Historic Stock Data S&P 500 Historic Stock Data There are 2 ways to calculate Coca-Cola's Beta in Excel:
Date Adj Close Return Date Adj Close Return
7/28/2014 69.82 -0.01147 7/28/2014 1930.67 -0.0241 1. The Excel Slope function can be used to find beta.
7/21/2014 70.63 -0.02283 7/21/2014 1978.34 6.07E-05 Beta 0.69 =SLOPE(C6:C57,H6:H57)
7/14/2014 72.28 -0.00138 7/14/2014 1978.22 0.005413
7/7/2014 72.38 -0.03929 7/7/2014 1967.57 -0.009 2. Run a regression analysis to find beta.
6/30/2014 75.34 0.013997 6/30/2014 1985.44 0.012484 The output is shown in the next tab.
6/23/2014 74.3 -0.00575 6/23/2014 1960.96 -0.00097
6/16/2014 74.73 0.003087 6/16/2014 1962.87 0.013795
6/9/2014 74.5 -0.02051 6/9/2014 1936.16 -0.00681
6/2/2014 76.06 0.014269 6/2/2014 1949.44 0.013449
5/27/2014 74.99 -0.01575 5/27/2014 1923.57 0.012123
5/19/2014 76.19 0.002104 5/19/2014 1900.53 0.012072
5/12/2014 76.03 -0.01541 5/12/2014 1877.86 -0.00033
5/5/2014 77.22 -0.06626 5/5/2014 1878.48 -0.00141
4/28/2014 82.7 0.010138 4/28/2014 1881.14 0.00952
4/21/2014 81.87 0.021078 4/21/2014 1863.4 -0.00078
4/14/2014 80.18 -0.00435 4/14/2014 1864.85 0.027075
4/7/2014 80.53 0.024164 4/7/2014 1815.69 -0.02649
3/31/2014 78.63 -0.07156 3/31/2014 1865.09 0.004021
3/24/2014 84.69 -0.03178 3/24/2014 1857.62 -0.00477
3/17/2014 87.47 -0.00421 3/17/2014 1866.52 0.01379
3/10/2014 87.84 0.021277 3/10/2014 1841.13 -0.01965
3/3/2014 86.01 0.144511 3/3/2014 1878.04 0.009998
2/24/2014 75.15 0.01335 2/24/2014 1859.45 0.012634
2/18/2014 74.16 0.032869 2/18/2014 1836.25 -0.00129
2/10/2014 71.8 0.063704 2/10/2014 1838.63 0.023155
2/3/2014 67.5 -0.00487 2/3/2014 1797.02 0.008095
What is Coca-Cola’s (KO) Beta?
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Beta and the Risk Premium
Return
β
Security Market Line Equation
The Capital Market Line and
the Security Market Line
E[rM ] E[rM ]
E[rQ ] E[rK ]
E[rQ ] E[rK ]
fr
rf
σM 1
E[ rM ] rf
σM E[rM ] rf
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Market Return = Rm = 7% .
1.0 β
Alpha
Market Return = Rm = 7% .
1.0 β
Creating a Portfolio
SML1
10.5
5.5
Risk, βi
SML1
10.5
5.5
Risk, β i