This paper looks at The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and how it can be used by fund managers when making investment decisions and the interaction of CAPM when calculating Alpha which enables investors to assess the fund manager’s performance. I will outline the principles of the two measures including any limitations that they present along with my conclusion. Part 1 – CAPM CAPM is considered to be an important device in financial management having been developed by three academics, Sharpe, Lintner and Mossin during 1964 – 1966 (1). William Sharpe actually published CAPM which was an extension of previous work conducted by Markowitz’s portfolio theory where he introduced the idea of systematic and unsystematic risk (2). The …show more content…
The CAPM formula is of follows (4). E (ri) = Rf + Bi (E (rm) – Rf) E (ri) = return required on financial asset i Rf = risk-free rate of return Bi = beta value for financial asset i E (rm) = average return on the capital market So, E (ri) is the cost of equity and the premium an investor should expect for taking on the additional risk and CAPM is based on a set of assumptions, including (5) : • All investors are rational and risk adverse • All investors have an identical holding period • No one individual can affect the market price • No taxes or transaction costs are taken into consideration • Unlimited borrowing and lending of risk free money It wasn’t until after the bear market (this is a declining market and it tends to begin with a sharp drop in stock prices across the board) of 1973 – 1974 that CAPM was really accepted and adopted by the world of finance lead by Wall Street (6). During the period of January 1973 to December 1974, the stock market (DJIA) reduced in value by 46%, a steep increase in unemployment and a high rate of inflation around 11% in the US (7). Even the UK suffered with strikes and an eventual change in government. Empirical evidence in the early years of CAPM provided support especially with Sharpe and Copper (1972). (8) During their testing, they used all stocks in New York stock exchange over a period between 1926 – 1968. Their research found past Beta could be used for future
In fact, “[t]he stock market lost close to 90% of its value” (Cobb). Elaborating on
The goal of this paper is to explain why CCM’s aggressive program is a good alternative to any investor looking to diversify its portfolio. The paper will be divided into three distinct parts: the operational analysis, the quantitative analysis and a comparison against its peers (including the impact of CCM in a traditional portfolio).
The Capital Assets Price Model (CAPM), is a model for pricing an individual security or a portfolio. Its basic function is to describe the relationship between risk and expected return, which is often used to estimate a cost of equity (Wikipedia, 2009). It serves as a model for determining the discount rate which is used in calculating net present value. 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. The formula is:
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It started in the 1920s when the United States stock market went through rapid expansion
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So, the cost of capital of any investment opportunity equals the expected return of available investments with the same beta. This estimate is
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billion. This was the start of the biggest national crisis since the civil war. The stock market was going
and the people stopped their spending and investments and to led many factories and other businesses to slow down production and begin sending the workers home and many lost their jobs. Some workers were lucky enough to keep their jobs but the wages fell and buying power decreased.
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The CAPM is a single factor model because it based on the hypothesis that required rate of return can be predicted using one factor that being systematic risk. It looks at risk and rates of returns, compares then to the stock market providing a usable measure of risk to help investors determine what return they will get for risking their money in an investment. There are a lot of assumptions and drawbacks of CAPM that lead to the conclusion that those investors utilizing this
before the passage of securities regulation in the 1930s. Hawkins explained that the New York
We use the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to determine the cost of equity. As
CAPM on the other hand is based on microeconomic ideas such as concave utilities and costless diversification. Macroeconomic events mentioned include interest rates or the cost of labor, causes the systematic risk that affects the returns of all stocks. On the other hand the firm-specific events are the unexpected microeconomic events that affect the returns of specific firms for example the death of key people that would affects the firm, but would have a insignificant effect on the