estimated to testify that the CAPM works in practice. The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) provides us with an insight into the relationship between the risk of an asset and its expected return. This relationship serves two significant functions. First‚ it provides a benchmark rate of return for evaluating possible investments. Second‚ the model helps us to make an educated guess as to the expected return on asset that have not yet been traded in the marketplace. Although the CAPM is widely used because
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ECON 405: Quantitative Finance CAPM and APT In this document‚ I use the package ”gmm”. You can get it the usual way through R or though the development website RForge for a more recent version. For the latter‚ you can install it by typing the following in R: > install.packages("gmm"‚ repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") The data I use come with the package and can be extracted as follows: > > > > library(gmm) data(Finance) R > > > > Rm F) 0.70956 0.70956 0.70956 0.70956 They use a particular
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CAPM CAPM provides a framework for measuring the systematic risk of an individual security and relate it to the systematic risk of a well-diversified portfolio. The risk of individual securities is measured by β (beta). Thus‚ the equation for security market line (SML) is: E(Rj) = Rf + [E(Rm) – Rf] βj (Equation 1) Where E(Rj) is the expected return on security j‚ Rf the risk-free rate of interest‚ Rm the expected return on the market portfolio and βj the undiversifiable risk of security
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CAPM 1 Calculate the expected return for A Industries which has a beta of 1.75 when the risk free rate is 0.03 and you expect the market return to be 0.11. 2 Calculate the expected return for B Services which has a beta of 0.83 when the risk free rate is 0.05 and you expect the market return to be 0.12. 3 Calculate the expected return for C Inc. which has a beta of 0.8 when the risk free rate is 0.04 and you expect the market return to be 0.12. 4 Calculate the expected return for D Industries
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - ROLE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS People often question whether corporate boards matter because their day-today impact is difficult to observe. But‚ when things go wrong‚ they can become the center of attention. Certainly this was true of the Enron‚ Worldcom‚ and Parmalat scandals. The directors of Enron and Worldcom‚ in particular‚ were held liable for the fraud that occurred: Enron directors had to pay $168 million to investor plaintiffs‚ of which $13 million was out of pocket
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According to board structure‚ the difference of corporate governance among different countries is may be unitary or dual board on the country. In the UK and the USA‚ a unitary board of directors in the form of board structure‚ characterized by one single board comprising executive and non-executive directors. (Aguilera‚ 2003) It is responsible for all aspects of the activities of the corporation. A dual board of directors is including a supervisory board and executive board of management. Nevertheless
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Title: Case 5 Hewlett- Packard’s Secret Surveillance of Directors and Journalist Martha E Richard Aiken Technical College Abstract Obtaining confidential information by posing as another person was unethical. There are other avenues that could have been assessed to get to the person who was responsible for the leakage in the cooperation to the media. Seeking a private investigation team was an extreme measure in my opinion. What is done in the darkness shall always reveal itself in
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The Role of a Board of Directors By Jean Kelsey At first glance‚ one might think that the role of a Board of Directors (“Board”) would be based upon a standard set of criteria that would ultimately make the formation and function of a Board more straightforward. As I researched into the special role a Board would have within a non-profit‚ I discovered that the role is also determined by the functionality of that same Board. Functionality of a non-profit’s Board is clearly dependent upon several
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Introduction of Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company is the world’s largest producer of cars and trucks combined. Ford has manufacturing‚ assembly or sales affiliates in 34 countries. Ford companies employed 337‚800 people world-wide in 1996. Ford has manufacturing facilities in 22 countries on 5 continents‚ with 87 plants in North America and 41 in Europe. Europe 1995‚ Ford’s combined vehicle market share‚ at 12.2%‚ was the highest for eleven years‚ with three of the eight best-selling cars
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“The Board of directors should be strengthened by appointing independent directors.” Efficient Corporate Governance has emerged to be an integral part of running a business in today’s scenario; hence it becomes pertinent to understand the nitty-gritties of the role played by the directors of a company to ensure the same. Over the course of time‚ and among important developments in corporate governance and company law reform corresponding to the same‚ have felt the need for independent directors owing
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