Principles of Corporate Finance (Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
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ISBN: 9781259144387
Author: Richard A Brealey, Stewart C Myers, Franklin Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7, Problem 4PS
Portfolio risk True or false?
- a. Investors prefer diversified companies because they are less risky.
- b. If stocks were perfectly positively correlated, diversification would not reduce risk.
- c. Diversification over a large number of assets completely eliminates risk.
- d. Diversification works only when assets are uncorrelated.
- e. A stock with a low standard deviation always contributes less to portfolio risk than a stock with a higher standard deviation.
- f. The contribution of a stock to the risk of a well-diversified portfolio depends on its market risk.
- g. A well-diversified portfolio with a beta of 2.0 is twice as risky as the market portfolio.
- h. An undiversified portfolio with a beta of 2.0 is less than twice as risky as the market portfolio.
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Which one of the following expressions about risk and returns is wrong?
A. In general, one reason why a stock is riskier than a bond is that because cash flows from a bond are known and promised, whereas cash flows from a stock are neither known nor promised.
B. According to CAPM model, a well-diversified portfolio will have a beta which equals to 0.
C. Risk premium is the extra return provided on risky assets to compensate for risk. The difference between risky return and the risk-free return.
D. Unexpected return happened because new information came to light which caused our expectations about prices and returns to change.
Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
a. Portfolio diversification reduces the variability of returns on an individual stock.
b. Risk refers to the chance that some unfavorable event will occur, and a probability distribution is completely described by a listing of the likelihood of unfavorable events.
c. The SML relates a stock's required return to its market risk. The slope and intercept of this line cannot be controlled by the firms' managers, but managers can influence their firms' positions on the line by such actions as changing the firm's capital structure or the type of assets it employs.
d. A stock with a beta of −1.0 has zero market risk if held in a 1-stock portfolio.
e. When diversifiable risk has been diversified away, the inherent risk that remains is market risk, which is constant for all stocks in the market.
Which statement is NOT correct?
Investors can NOT eliminate market risk by adding more stocks to the portfolio.
Firm specific risk cannot be eliminated through diversification.
Standard deviation of return is a good measure of total risk for a stand-alone
security.
The only relevant risk for a well-diversified portfolio is non-diversifiable risk.
Chapter 7 Solutions
Principles of Corporate Finance (Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
Ch. 7 - Expected return and standard deviation A game of...Ch. 7 - Standard deviation of returns The following table...Ch. 7 - Average returns and standard deviation During the...Ch. 7 - Portfolio risk True or false? a. Investors prefer...Ch. 7 - Risk and diversification In which of the following...Ch. 7 - Portfolio risk To calculate the variance of a...Ch. 7 - Portfolio betas Suppose the standard deviation of...Ch. 7 - Portfolio betas A portfolio contains equal...Ch. 7 - Prob. 9PSCh. 7 - Prob. 10PS
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