Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780134083278
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 17P
What is the volatility (standard deviation) of an equally weighted portfolio of stocks within an industry in which the stocks have a volatility of 50% and a correlation of 40% as the portfolio becomes arbitrarily large?
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Consider an equally weighed portfolio of stocks in which each stock has a volatility of 40%, and the correlation between each pair of stocks is 27%.
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1. What is the volatility of the portfolio as the number of stocks becomes arbitrarily large?
2.What is the average correlation of each stock with this large portfolio?
Assume that the CAPM holds. One stock has an expected return of 8% and a beta of 0.3. Another stock has an expected return of 14% and a beta of 1.5. What is the return-to-risk ratio that CAPM assumes equal across all individual stocks?
a. Determine Stock X's beta coefficient.
b. Determine the arithmetic average rates of return for Stock X and the NYSE over the period given.
Calculate the standard deviations of returns for both Stock X and the NYSE.
c. Assume that the required return on equity, re, for Stock X is equal to its average return. Likewise,
assume that the market return is equal to the NYSE's average return. Using the information calculated,
what is the assumed risk-free rate in the CAPM equation?
Hint: Solve algebraically for rf in, re = r¡ + B(rm – r;)
Chapter 11 Solutions
Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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