EBK CORPORATE FINANCE
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Author: DeMarzo
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Chapter 13, Problem 22P
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To determine: The way to construct a positive-alpha trading strategy.
Introduction: Stock alpha is overabundance risk of the required return, which implies that it is controlled by subtracting the required return of the stock as per security market line (SML) from the expected return of the stock.
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