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  2. Capital asset pricing model - Wikipedia

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    An estimation of the CAPM and the security market line (purple) for the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 3 years for monthly data.. In finance, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a model used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset, to make decisions about adding assets to a well-diversified portfolio.

  3. Roll's critique - Wikipedia

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    The market return is defined as the wealth-weighted sum of all investment returns in the economy. Roll's critique makes two statements regarding the market portfolio: 1. Mean-variance tautology: Any mean-variance efficient portfolio satisfies the CAPM equation exactly:

  4. Risk premium - Wikipedia

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    The risk premium is used extensively in finance in areas such as asset pricing, portfolio allocation and risk management. [2] Two fundamental aspects of finance, being equity and debt instruments, require the use and interpretation of associated risk premiums with the inputs for each explained below:

  5. Fama–MacBeth regression - Wikipedia

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    The Fama–MacBeth regression is a method used to estimate parameters for asset pricing models such as the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). The method estimates the betas and risk premia for any risk factors that are expected to determine asset prices.

  6. Security market line - Wikipedia

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    E(R M) is an expected return on market portfolio M β is a nondiversifiable or systematic risk R M is a market rate of return R f is a risk-free rate. When used in portfolio management, the SML represents the investment's opportunity cost (investing in a combination of the market portfolio and the risk-free asset). All the correctly priced ...

  7. Asset pricing - Wikipedia

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    Calculating option prices, and their "Greeks", i.e. sensitivities, combines: (i) a model of the underlying price behavior, or "process" - i.e. the asset pricing model selected, with its parameters having been calibrated to observed prices; and (ii) a mathematical method which returns the premium (or sensitivity) as the expected value of option ...

  8. Consumption-based capital asset pricing model - Wikipedia

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    While the CAPM is derived in a static, one-period setting, the CCAPM uses a more realistic, multiple-period setup. The central implication of the CCAPM is that the expected return on an asset is related to "consumption risk", that is, how much uncertainty in consumption would come from holding the asset.

  9. Risk factor (finance) - Wikipedia

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    In finance, risk factors are the building blocks of investing, that help explain the systematic returns in equity market, and the possibility of losing money in investments or business adventures. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A risk factor is a concept in finance theory such as the capital asset pricing model , arbitrage pricing theory and other theories that ...