Chapter 7Charles P. Jones, Investments: Analysis and Management,
Twelfth Edition, John Wiley & Sons
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Involve uncertainty Focus on expected returns
◦ Estimates of future returns needed to consider and manage risk
◦ Investors often overly optimistic about expected returns
Goal is to reduce risk without affecting returns◦ Accomplished by building a portfolio◦ Diversification is key
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Risk that an expected return will not be realized
Investors must think about return distributions
Probabilities weight outcomes◦ Assigned to each possible outcome to create a
distribution◦ History provides guide but must be modified for
expected future changes◦ Distributions can be discrete or continuous
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Expected value ◦ The weighted average of all possible return
outcomes included in the probability distribution Each outcome weighted by probability of
occurrence◦ Referred to as expected return
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Variance and standard deviation used to quantify and measure risk◦ Measure the spread or dispersion around the
mean of the probability distribution◦ Variance of returns: σ² = (Ri - E(R))²pri
◦ Standard deviation of returns:σ =(σ²)1/2
◦ σ is expected (ex ante) Actual (ex post) σ useful but not perfect estimate
of future
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Modern Portfolio Theory
Provides framework for selection of portfolios based on expected return and risk
Used, to varying degrees, by financial managers
Shows benefits of diversification The risk of a portfolio does not equal the
sum of the risks of its individual securities◦ Must account for correlations among individual
risks
Weighted average of the individual security expected returns◦ Each portfolio asset has a weight, w, which
represents the percent of the total portfolio value
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Portfolio risk not simply the sum or the weighted average of individual security risks
Emphasis on the risk of the entire portfolio and not on risk of individual securities in the portfolio
Diversification almost always lowers risk Measured by the variance or standard
deviation of the portfolio’s return
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Assume all risk sources for a portfolio of securities are independent◦ This assumption is unrealistic when investing◦ Market risk affects all firms, cannot be diversified
away If risks independent, the larger the number
of securities the smaller the exposure to any particular risk◦ “Insurance principle”◦ Only issue is how many securities to hold
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Random (or naïve) diversification◦ Diversifying without looking at how security
returns are related to each other◦ Marginal risk reduction gets smaller and smaller
as more securities are added Beneficial but not optimal
◦ Risk reduction kicks in as soon as additional securities added
◦ Research suggests it takes a large number of securities for significant risk reduction
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Needed to calculate risk of a portfolio:◦ Weighted individual security risks
Calculated by a weighted variance using the proportion of funds in each security
For security i: (wi × σi)2◦ Weighted co-movements between returns
Return covariances are weighted using the proportion of funds in each security
For securities i, j: 2wiwj × σij
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Statistical measure of relative association ij = correlation coefficient between
securities i and j◦ ij = +1.0 = perfect positive correlation
◦ ij = -1.0 = perfect negative (inverse) correlation
◦ ij = 0.0 = zero correlation
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When does diversification pay?◦ With perfectly positive correlation, risk is a
weighted average, therefore there is no risk reduction
◦ With perfectly negative correlation, diversification assures the expected return
◦ With zero correlation If many securities, provides significant risk reduction Cannot eliminate risk
Negative correlation or low positive correlation ideal but unlikely
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Absolute, not relative, measure of association ◦ Not limited to values between -1 and +1◦ Sign interpreted the same as correlation◦ Size depends on units of variables ◦ Related to correlation coefficient
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Encompasses three factors◦ Variance (risk) of each security◦ Covariance between each pair of securities◦ Portfolio weights for each security
Goal: select weights to determine the minimum variance combination for a given level of expected return
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Generalizations ◦ the smaller the positive correlation between
securities, the better◦ Covariance calculations grow quickly◦ As the number of securities increases:
The importance of covariance relationships increases The importance of each individual security’s risk
decreases
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Markowitz full-covariance model◦ Requires a covariance between the returns of all
securities in order to calculate portfolio variance◦ [n(n-1)]/2 set of covariances for n securities
Markowitz suggests using an index to which all securities are related to simplify
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