More About the Markets
Abhijan Khosla (Director of Mentorship)
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Who Am I?
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NO MENTORSHIP THURSDAY
TEST IS TEUSDAY OCTOBER 1st!
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A quick review● There are two kinds of markets
○ Primary ○ Secondary
● Securities can be listed in two ways ○ Listed ○ OTC
● The Efficient Market Hypothesis has 3 “levels”○ Strong ○ Semi-strong ○ Weak
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A quick review● The 3 main styles of investing
○ Value○ Growth ○ Momentum
● What is the difference between going long and short? How do we “short” a stock?
● Different levels of market cap○ Large○ Mid ○ Small
● What does “liquidity” mean and why is it so important?
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What we’re doing today● We use statistics to measure risk ● Some basic concepts ● Properties of data sets
○ Mean○ Median - “middle number”○ Mode - occurs most often
● Normal Distributions● Standard Deviations
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Normal or “Gaussian” Distributions
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Measuring Risk in Markets● Name some major risks people lending
money may face● How do we measure the risk of a stock?● We use the Standard Deviation of returns to
compare similarly performing companies ● Standard Deviation formula
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Risk Practice Problems● You are thinking about investing in 2
companies. One of them (let’s call it ABC) following monthly returns○ 4%○ 2%○ 3%○ 1%○ -8%
● What is this stocks average return and standard deviation?
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Risk Practice Problems● The next company (DEF) has the following
returns;○ 1%○ 2%○ 1%○ 3%○ 2%
● What is this stocks average return and standard deviation?
● Which stock would you most likely invest in?● What other factors should influence your
decision?
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Risk and Return● The basic assumption about financial
markets is that greater risk is met with greater return
● If you invest in a risky security you expect to be compensated with a greater return
● The risk/return relationship is central to determining if securities are mispriced in the market
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More Risk!● Standard deviation is a good measure of risk
for an individual securities ● What about a stock’s sensitivity to the
market?● When the broader market is down individual
company stocks are often down, why is that?● Traders use stocks as a way to express their
views on the market, often movements in stocks are not due to company news but market news
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More Risk!● The most common way to see how a stock
moves in relation to the broader market (represented by the S&P 500) is Beta
● Beta (or market risk) is a measure of a securities relative volatility as compared to the broader market
● Beta > 1 means the stock is more volatile than the market
● Beta < 1 means the stock is less volatile than the market
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Beta
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Beta Practice● Consider the following security beta’s;
a. 1.3b. 1.4c. .6d. .4e. .35f. 1.9
● If the market rose 10% by how much would you expect each of the securities to rise?
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Using Beta to determine return● We previously calculated expected return by
taking the average of past returns ● With Beta we know how a security compares
to the market return● Using this information we can calculate the
E(r) of a security without knowing its previous returns
● E(r) = Risk Free Rate + Beta (Market Risk Premium) ○ Market risk premium = market return - risk
free rate
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CAPM● The use of Beta, Market Return and the Risk
Free Rate to determine expected return is called the Capital Asset Pricing Model or CAPM
● What do you think we use for the risk free rate?
● If a stock’s beta is 1.2 and the market has returned 10% on average while the risk free is 2% what is the stock’s expected return?
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Alpha● If everything perfectly followed CAPM then
we would be able to very accurately predict what a given stock would return
● If this was true then we would not need actively managed funds to gain outsized returns
● Alpha is the portion of returns associated with a given security or set of securities
● Alpha represents a greater return for lower risk
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Risk/Return Payoff● Which portfolio manager did a better job last
year and why?
Bill - 25% return Carl - 20% return
● What does the information above NOT tell us about the returns of the portfolios in question?
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The Risk Return Payoff● RISK! ● We haven’t accounted for the risk each
manager took so we don’t know if they got those returns by picking smart investments or simply taking a lot of risk
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Risk Adjusted Returns
● Let’s take another look at those returns
Bill – (25% return, stdev of 20%) Carl – (20% return, stdev of 25%)
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What does the Sharpe Ratio Tell Us?● A sharpe ratio tells us how much return the
portfolio gets for every “unit” of risk it takes ● A sharpe ratio of > 1 means for every unit of
risk we get more than 1 unit of return ● A sharpe ratio of > 2 means that we are
getting double the return for every unit of risk we take
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Where does “risk” come from?● Beta measures risk compared to markets● Alpha measures risk of individual assets ● If we hold multiple securities at the same
time can we increase/decrease our risk?● Correlation - the degree to which two things
move together ● If we have a portfolio of highly correlated
stocks then our entire portfolio will rise and fall at the same time
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Correlation Correlation - a measure of how closely two
things move together
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Why We Care About Correlation
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Diversification● We can increase our portfolio’s risk/return
relationship by diversifying● If we hold non-correlated assets then they
will move separately eliminating moves cause by correlations
● Say you have a portfolio of only Tech stocks (GOOG, APPL, MSFT) how would you diversify your holdings so a drop in the tech sector wouldn’t bankrupt you?
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Diversification
Quiz Time!
What is Beta?1. Security Risk2. Market Risk3. Treasury Risk4. Interest Rate Risk
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What is Beta?1. Security Risk2. Market Risk3. Treasury Risk4. Interest Rate Risk
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How many low correlation stocks do we need to achieve the diversification benefit
1. 52. 203. 304. 33
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How many low correlation stocks do we need to achieve the diversification benefit
1. 52. 203. 304. 33
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What is NOT a component of CAPM1. Market Risk2. Risk Free Rate3. Beta4. Market Return
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What is NOT a component of CAPM1. Market Risk2. Risk Free Rate3. Beta4. Market Return
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