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Expected return
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Example:
Inflation expectations increase by 3
percentage points.
Risk-free rate will increase from 8% to 11%.
Expected return on the market portfolio
will increase from 15% to 18%.
SML
Example:
Investors’ risk aversion increases such that
RPM increases by 3 percentage points.
Risk-free rate will stay the same.
The expected return on the market (b=1)
would increase from 15% to 18%.
Expected return and required
return
An asset’s value is all its future cash flows
discounted at the market’s required return, which
compensates for the asset’s risk.
Investors will not invest in an asset unless they
expect to make at least the required return.
If expected return > required return, the security
is a “bargain” – it offers more potential return than
required for its level of risk. Buy orders will exceed
sell orders, bidding up the market price. This will
drive down expected return until it equals required
return.
The opposite would occur if expected return <
required return.
In an active and competitive market, expected
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