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Risk and Return Riccardo Colacito
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Roadmap Rates of Return Summary Statistics of rates of return
Holding Period Return Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual Rate Summary Statistics of rates of return Probability Distribution Expected Return Variance, Covariance and Standard Deviation Other properties Historical record of Bills, Bonds, and Stocks Risk premia from ? Inflation and Real Rates of Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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Holding Period Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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Rates of Return: Single Period Example
Ending Price = 24 Beginning Price = 20 Dividend = 1 HPR = ( )/ ( 20) = 25% Foundations of Financial Markets
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Roadmap Rates of Return Summary Statistics of rates of return
Holding Period Return Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual Rate Summary Statistics of rates of return Probability Distribution Expected Return Variance, Covariance and Standard Deviation Other properties Historical record of Bills, Bonds, and Stocks Risk premia from ? Inflation and Real Rates of Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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Returns Using Arithmetic and Geometric Averaging
Time 1 2 3 4 HPR .1 .25 -.20 Arithmetic ra = (r1 + r rn) / n ra = ( ) / 4 = .10 or 10% Geometric rg = [(1+r1) (1+r2) .... (1+rn)]1/n - 1 rg = [(1.1) (1.25) (.8) (1.25)]1/4 - 1 = (1.5150) 1/4 -1 = = 8.29% Foundations of Financial Markets
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Roadmap Rates of Return Summary Statistics of rates of return
Holding Period Return Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual Rate Summary Statistics of rates of return Probability Distribution Expected Return Variance and Standard Deviation Other properties Historical record of Bills, Bonds, and Stocks Risk premia from ? Inflation and Real Rates of Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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Quoting Conventions Annual Percentage Rate
APR = (periods in year) X (rate for period) Effective Annual Rate EAR = ( 1+ rate for period)Periods per yr – 1 Example: monthly return of 1% APR = 1% X 12 = 12% EAR = (1.01) = 12.68% Foundations of Financial Markets
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Roadmap Rates of Return Summary Statistics of rates of return
Holding Period Return Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual Rate Summary Statistics of rates of return Probability Distribution Expected Return Variance, Covariance and Standard Deviation Other properties Historical record of Bills, Bonds, and Stocks Risk premia from ? Inflation and Real Rates of Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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Probability distribution
Definition: list of possible outcomes with associated probabilities Example: State Outcome Prob 1 -2 .1 2 -1 .2 3 .4 4 5 Foundations of Financial Markets
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Probability distribution: figure
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Normal distribution Foundations of Financial Markets
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Notation Let p(i) denote the probability with which state i occurs
Outcome Prob 1 -2 .1 2 -1 .2 3 .4 4 5 Let p(i) denote the probability with which state i occurs Then p(1)=0.1 p(2)=0.2 p(3)=0.4 p(4)=0.2 p(5)=0.1 Foundations of Financial Markets
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Roadmap Rates of Return Summary Statistics of rates of return
Holding Period Return Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual Rate Summary Statistics of rates of return Probability Distribution Expected Return Variance, Covariance and Standard Deviation Other properties Historical record of Bills, Bonds, and Stocks Risk premia from ? Inflation and Real Rates of Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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S Expected Return E ( r ) = p s Definition:
p(s) = probability of a state r(s) = return if a state occurs 1 to s states E ( r ) = p s S Foundations of Financial Markets
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E(r) = (.1)(-2) + (.2)(-1) + (.4)(0) + (.2)(1) + (.1)(2) = 0
Numerical Example State Prob Return 1 .1 -2 2 .2 -1 3 .4 4 5 E(r) = (.1)(-2) + (.2)(-1) + (.4)(0) + (.2)(1) + (.1)(2) = 0 Foundations of Financial Markets
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Roadmap Rates of Return Summary Statistics of rates of return
Holding Period Return Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual Rate Summary Statistics of rates of return Probability Distribution Expected Return Variance, Covariance and Standard Deviation Other properties Historical record of Bills, Bonds, and Stocks Risk premia from ? Inflation and Real Rates of Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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Why do we need the variance?
Two variables with the same mean. What do we know about their dispersion? Foundations of Financial Markets
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Measuring Variance or Dispersion of Returns
Standard deviation = variance1/2 Variance = S s p ( ) [ r - E )] 2 Why do we take squared deviations? Foundations of Financial Markets
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Numerical example State Prob Return 1 .1 -2 2 .2 -1 3 .4 4 5
4 5 Var = .1 (-2-0) (-1-0) (0-0) (1-0) (2-0)2 = 1.2 Std dev= (1.2)1/2 = 1.095 Foundations of Financial Markets
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One important property of variance and standard deviation
Let w be a constant Var(wxr) = w2 x Var(r) Similarly Std Dev(wxr) = w x Std Dev(r) Foundations of Financial Markets
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Covariance: Preliminaries
The extent at which two assets tend to move together Can be positive or negative Correlation Same idea of covariance, but bounded between -1 and 1 Foundations of Financial Markets
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Covariance: definition
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Correlation: definition
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Correlation (cont’d) Foundations of Financial Markets
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Other properties - Foundations of Financial Markets
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Correlation=-1 r1 r2 probability 1 5 .2 2 4 3
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Correlation=+1 r1 r2 probability 1 .2 2 3 4 5
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Correlation=0 r1 r2 probability 2 .2 4 3
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Roadmap Rates of Return Summary Statistics of rates of return
Holding Period Return Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual Rate Summary Statistics of rates of return Probability Distribution Expected Return Variance, Covariance and Standard Deviation Other properties Historical record of Bills, Bonds, and Stocks Risk premia from ? Inflation and Real Rates of Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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Characteristics of Probability Distributions
1) Mean: most likely value 2) Variance or standard deviation 3) Skewness * If a distribution is approximately normal, the distribution is described by characteristics 1 and 2 Foundations of Financial Markets
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Skewed Distribution: Large Negative Returns Possible
Median Negative Positive r Foundations of Financial Markets
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Skewed Distribution: Large Positive Returns Possible
Median Negative r Positive Foundations of Financial Markets
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Roadmap Rates of Return Summary Statistics of rates of return
Holding Period Return Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual Rate Summary Statistics of rates of return Probability Distribution Expected Return Variance, Covariance and Standard Deviation Other properties Historical record of Bills, Bonds, and Stocks Risk premia from ? Inflation and Real Rates of Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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Risk premium An expected return in excess of that of a risk free rate
Example The expected return on the S&P500 is 9% The return on a 1-month T-bill is 3% The risk premium is 6% (9%-3%) Foundations of Financial Markets
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Annual Holding Period Returns From Table 5.3 of Text
Geom. Arith. Stan. Series Mean% Mean% Dev.% World Stk US Lg Stk US Sm Stk Wor Bonds LT Treas T-Bills Inflation Foundations of Financial Markets
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Risk Premia Arith. Stan. Series Mean% Dev.% World Stk 7.37 18.69
US Lg Stk US Sm Stk Wor Bonds LT Treas Foundations of Financial Markets
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Figure 5.1 Frequency Distributions of Holding Period Returns
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Figure 5.2 Rates of Return on Stocks, Bonds and Bills
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Roadmap Rates of Return Summary Statistics of rates of return
Holding Period Return Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual Rate Summary Statistics of rates of return Probability Distribution Expected Return Variance, Covariance and Standard Deviation Other properties Historical record of Bills, Bonds, and Stocks Risk premia from ? Inflation and Real Rates of Return Foundations of Financial Markets
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Real vs. Nominal Rates Notation: Exact relationship
R=nominal return i =inflation rate r =real return Exact relationship Approximate relationship Example R = 9%, i = 6%: what is r? Foundations of Financial Markets
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Figure 5.4 Interest, Inflation and Real Rates of Return
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