Financial Investments

Chapter 5 - Practice quizzes

Nelson Areal

Practice exercises

These are multiple choice questions that should be used to practice your level of mastery of the material.

They are sample exercises and should not be interpreted as a complete set of exercises that can be created for this chapter material.

Please note that doing the required readings is essential.

Question 1

Consider the CAPM. The risk-free rate is 1.65% and the expected return on the market is 12.26%. The correlation between the returns of asset A and the market is 0.99, the standard deviation of asset A returns is 5.27% and the standard deviation of market returns is 20.93%. What is the beta of asset A?

Considere o modelo do CAPM. A taxa isenta de risco é de 1.65% e a taxa de rendibilidade esperada para o mercado é de 12.26%. A correlação do activo A com o mercado é de 0.99, o desvio padrão das rendibilidades de A é de 5.27% e o desvio padrão do mercado é de 20.93%. Qual o beta do activo A?

4.73

22.6

0.05

0.25

\beta_a = \frac{cov(a,m)}{\sigma_m^2}\\ \beta_a = \frac{\rho_{a,b}\sigma_a\sigma_m}{\sigma_m^2}\\ \beta_a = 0.24927

Question 2

Stocks A, B, C and D have betas of 0.1, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.3 respectively. What is the beta of an equally weighted portfolio of A, B and C?

Os activos A, B, C e D tem betas de 0.1, 0.8, 0.9 e 1.3 respectivamente. Qual o beta de uma carteira composta com os activos A, B e C em que estes têm todo o mesmo peso?

0.6

0.73

0.78

1.03

Read the problem carefully!

\beta_p = 1/3 \times 0.1 + 1/3 \times 0.8 + 1/3 \times 0.9 \\ \beta_p = 0.6

Question 3

Consider the CAPM. The risk-free rate is 2% and the expected return on the market is 12.25%. What is the expected return on a stock with a beta of 1.1?

Considere o modelo do CAPM. A taxa isenta de risco é de 2% e a a taxa de rendibilidade esperada para o mercado é de 12.25%. Qual a rendibilidade esperada de um activo com o beta de 1.1?

11.28%

13.28%

13.48%

15.48%

E[r_i] = r_f + \beta_i(E[r_m]-r_f)\\ E[r_i] = 0.02 + 1.1\times(0.1225-0.02)\\ E[r_i] = 0.13275

Question 4

Consider the CAPM. The risk-free rate is 1.06% and the expected return on the market is 15.22%. What is the beta on a stock with an expected return of 19.97%?

Considere o modelo do CAPM. A taxa isenta de risco é de 1.06% e a taxa de rendibilidade esperada para o mercado é de 15.22%. Qual o beta de um activo com a rendibilidade esperada de 19.97%?

1.24

1.31

1.34

1.41

E[r_i] = r_f + \beta_i(E[r_m]-r_f)\\ 0.1997 = 0.0106 + \beta_i(0.1522-0.0106)\\ \beta_i = 1.33545

Question 5

Security A has an expected rate of return of 20.84% and a beta of 0.72. The risk-free rate is 4.83% and the market expected rate of return is 22.56%. According to the capital asset pricing model, security A is __________.

O activo A tem uma taxa de rendibilidade esperada de 20.84% e um beta de 0.72. A taxa isenta de risco é de 4.83% e a taxa de rendibilidade esperada para o mercado é de 22.56%. De acordo com o CAPM o activo A está __________.

underpriced / sub-avaliado

overpriced / sobre-avaliado

fairly priced / com preço adequado

no other answer is correct / nenhuma das outras respostas está correcta

Compare the expected return from the Capital Asset Pricing Model with the expected return of the asset provided in the exercise.

E[r_i] - r_f = \alpha_i + \beta_i\times (E[r_m]-r_f)\\ 0.2084 - 0.0483 = \alpha_i + 0.72 \times(0.2256 - 0.0483)\\ \alpha_i = 0.03244

Assets with positive alphas are underpriced.