An overview of the capital market history by im pandey

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RISK AND RETURN: AN OVERVIEW OF CAPITAL MARKET THEORY

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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? Discuss

the concepts of average and expected rates of return. ? Define and measure risk for individual assets. ? Show the steps in the calculation of standard deviation and variance of returns. ? Explain the concept of normal distribution and the importance of standard deviation. ? Compute historical average return of securities and market premium. ? Determine the relationship between risk and return. ? Highlight the difference between relevant and irrelevant risks.

Return on a Single Asset
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? Total

return = Dividend + Capital gain
Rate of return ? Dividend yield ? Capital gain yield DIV1 P1 ? P0 DIV1 ? ? P1 ? P0 ? R1 ? ? ? P0 P0 P0

Return on a Single Asset
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Year-to-Year Total Returns on HUL Share
50
40.94

40 30
21 .84

36.99

Total Return (%)

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1 0.81

1 5.65

1 2.83 2.93

10 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 Year 1998 1999 2000
-6.73

2001

2002
-1 6.43

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

-27.45

Average Rate of Return
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? The

average rate of return is the sum of the various one-period rates of return divided by the number of period. ? Formula for the average rate of return is as follows:
1 R = [ R1 ? R 2 ? n 1 ? Rn ] ? n

?R
t =1

n

t

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Risk of Rates of Return: Variance and Standard Deviation
? Formulae

for calculating variance and standard

deviation:
Standard deviation = Variance
1 n Variance ? ? ? ? Rt ? R n ? 1 t ?1
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Investment Worth of Different Portfolios, 1980-81 to 2007–08

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HISTORICAL CAPITAL MARKET RETURNS

Year-byYear Returns in India: 1981-2008

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Averages and Standard Deviations, 1980–81 to 2007–08

*Relative to 91-Days T-bills.

Historical Risk Premium
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? The

28-year average return on the stock market is higher by about 15 per cent in comparison with the average return on 91day T-bills. 28-year average return on the stock market is higher by about 12 per cent in comparison with the average return on the long-term government bonds. excess return is a compensation for the higher risk of the return on the stock market; it is commonly referred to as risk premium.

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Expected Return : Incorporating Probabilities in Estimates
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The expected rate of return [E (R)] is the sum of the product of each outcome (return) and its associated probability:
Rates of Returns Under Various Economic Conditions

Returns and Probabilities

Cont…
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? The

following formula can be used to calculate the variance of returns:
? 2 ? ? R1 ? E ? R 2 ?? P ? ? R2 ? E ? R 2 ?? P2 ? ... ? ? Rn ? E ? R 2 ?? Pn ? ? 1 ? ? ? ?
? ? ? Ri ? E ? R 2 ? ?Pi ? ?
n i ?1

Example
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Expected Risk and Preference
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risk-averse investor will choose among investments with the equal rates of return, the investment with lowest standard deviation and among investments with equal risk she would prefer the one with higher return.

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risk-neutral investor does not consider risk, and would always prefer investments with higher returns.
risk-seeking investor likes investments with higher risk irrespective of the rates of return. In reality, most (if not all) investors are risk-averse.

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Risk preferences
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Normal Distribution and Standard Deviation
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explaining the risk-return relationship, we assume that returns are normally distributed. ? The spread of the normal distribution is characterized by the standard deviation. ? Normal distribution is a population-based, theoretical distribution.

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Normal distribution

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Properties of a Normal Distribution
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area under the curve sums to1. ? The curve reaches its maximum at the expected value (mean) of the distribution and one-half of the area lies on either side of the mean. ? Approximately 50 per cent of the area lies within ± 0.67 standard deviations of the expected value; about 68 per cent of the area lies within ± 1.0 standard deviations of the expected value; 95 per cent of the area lies within ± 1.96 standard deviation of the expected value and 99 per cent of the area lies within ± 3.0 standard deviations of the expected value.

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Probability of Expected Returns
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normal probability table, can be used to determine the area under the normal curve for various standard deviations. ? The distribution tabulated is a normal distribution with mean zero and standard deviation of 1. Such a distribution is known as a standard normal distribution. ? Any normal distribution can be standardised and hence the table of normal probabilities will serve for any normal distribution. The formula to standardise is: S = R - E ( R)
s

Example
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An asset has an expected return of 29.32 per cent and the standard deviation of the possible returns is 13.52 per cent.

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To find the probability that the return of the asset will be zero or less, we can divide the difference between zero and the expected value of the return by standard deviation of possible net present value as follows:
S= = – 2.17

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0 - 29.32 13.52

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The probability of being less than 2.17 standard deviations from the expected value, according to the normal probability distribution table is 0.015. This means that there is 0.015 or 1.5% probability that the return of the asset will be zero or less.



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