CHAPTER 9

The Capital Asset Pricing Model

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Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

• It is the equilibrium model that underlies all

modern financial theory
• Derived using principles of diversification
with simplified assumptions
• Markowitz, Sharpe, Lintner and Mossin are
researchers credited with its development

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Assumptions
• Individual investors • Information is
are price takers costless and available
• Single-period to all investors
investment horizon • Investors are rational
mean-variance
• Investments are
optimizers
limited to traded
• There are
financial assets
homogeneous
• No taxes and expectations
transaction costs
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Resulting Equilibrium Conditions

• All investors will hold the same portfolio

for risky assets – market portfolio

• Market portfolio contains all securities and

the proportion of each security is its
market value as a percentage of total
market value

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Resulting Equilibrium Conditions

• Risk premium on the market depends on

the average risk aversion of all market
participants

• Risk premium on an individual security

is a function of its covariance with the
market

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Figure 9.1 The Efficient Frontier and the

Capital Market Line

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Market Risk Premium

•The risk premium on the market portfolio
will be proportional to its risk and the
degree of risk aversion of the investor:

E (rM )  rf  A M2
where  M2 is the variance of the market portolio and
A is the average degree of risk aversion across investors

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Return and Risk For Individual

Securities
• The risk premium on individual
securities is a function of the individual
security’s contribution to the risk of the
market portfolio.
• An individual security’s risk premium is
a function of the covariance of returns
with the assets that make up the market
portfolio.

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GE Example

 n
 n
Cov(rGE , rM )  Cov  rGE ,  wk rk    wk Cov(rk , rGE )
 k 1  k 1

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GE Example

• Therefore, the reward-to-risk ratio for

investments in GE would be:

GE's contribution to risk premium wGE  E (rGE )  rf  E (rGE )  rf

 
GE's contribution to variance wGE Cov(rGE , rM ) Cov(rGE , rM )

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GE Example
• Reward-to-risk ratio for investment in
market portfolio:
Market risk premium E (rM )  rf

Market variance  M2

• At Equilibrium, all investment should yield the

same Reward-to-risk ratios. Thus, the ratio of
GE and the market portfolio should be equal:
E rGE   rf E rM   rf

CovrGE , rM   2
M
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GE Example

• The risk premium for GE:

COV rGE , rM 
E rGE   rf  2
 M

E rM   rf 

• Restating, we obtain:


E rGE   rf   GE E rM   r f 
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Expected Return-Beta Relationship

• CAPM holds for the overall portfolio because:
E (rP )   wk E (rk ) and
k

P   wk  k
k

• This also holds for the market portfolio:

E (rM )  rf   M  E (rM )  rf 

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Figure 9.2 The Security Market Line

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Figure 9.3 The SML and a Positive-Alpha

Stock

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The Index Model and Realized

Returns
• To move from expected to realized
returns, use the index model in excess
return form:
Ri  i  i RM  ei


E rGE   rf   GE E rM   rf 
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The Index Model and Realized

Returns

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CAPM and Alpha

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Figure 9.4 Estimates of Individual

Mutual Fund Alphas, 1972-1991

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Is the CAPM Practical?

• CAPM is the best model to explain
returns on risky assets. This means:

– Without security analysis, α is

assumed to be zero.
– Positive and negative alphas are
revealed only by superior security
analysis.

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Is the CAPM Practical?

• We must use a proxy for the market

portfolio.

• CAPM is still considered the best

available description of security
pricing and is widely accepted.

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Liquidity and the CAPM

• Liquidity: The ease and speed with which
an asset can be sold at fair market value
• Illiquidity Premium: Discount from fair
market value the seller must accept to
obtain a quick sale.
– Measured partly by bid-asked spread
– As trading costs are higher, the
illiquidity discount will be greater.

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Figure 9.5 The Relationship Between

Illiquidity and Average Returns

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Liquidity Risk
• In a financial crisis, liquidity can
unexpectedly dry up.
• When liquidity in one stock decreases, it
tends to decrease in other stocks at the
same time.
• Investors demand compensation for
liquidity risk

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