Managerial Finance
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Chapter 11
Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Opportunity Cost of Capital
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Topics Covered
11.1 Rates of Return: A Review
11.2 A Century of Capital Market History
11.3 Measuring Risk
11.4 Risk & Diversification
11.5 Thinking About Risk
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Rates of Return
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Rates of Return
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Rates of Return
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Rates of Return
Nominal vs. Real
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Market Indexes
Market Index — Measure of the investment performance of the overall market
Dow Jones Industrial Average (The Dow) — Index of the investment performance of a portfolio of 30 “blue-chip” stocks
Standard & Poor’s Composite Index (S&P 500) — Index of the investment performance of a portfolio of 500 large stocks, also called the S&P 500
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The Value of a $1 Investment in 1900
Source: Ibbotson Associates
Year Start
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Dollars
Expected Return
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Rates of Return
Common Stocks (1900-2013)
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1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 24.231597675361005 17.981957126464245 6.0565901035437353 -14.56815060937865 28.130576233977344 22.058097206789462 4.0732337854173739 -29.291461158468181 46.844911175744699 20.005421528881961 -8.5149049716715002 5.6729877001978402 7.185109521973998 -7.7987819175527218 -5.5377102169854915 38.785086673292653 6.4053931086108573 -18.913638743449333 19.612962760627472 20.640216621861729 -17.875512405285942 11.6025187948831 30.628135371217603 2.992616099352885 27.033596531650204 28.297125433409633 9.2350016399071357 33.390313993284224 38.856186821033731 -14.551501908999843 -28.535770713310317 -43.537653569436642 -8.6928115331499463 57.091812744542203 4.2808214896951302 44.316759262548231 32.260891919864896 -34.69095776291099 28.08617685417849 2.8597101309922657 -7.0751366304941392 -10.034846434957901 16.041453684969387 28.383813503052234 21.305239771845663 38.070084697854554 -5.8565094668552415 3.5793872115058356 2.1094882659530967 20.217729140053532 29.610511128896412 20.681768218811158 13.416434566364877 0.67147914519611884 49.977866454142259 25.214284716338597 8.2647745060050237 -10.052634671260229 45.02199179665751 12.668682704476408 1.1584243024977292 26.945797511508474 -10.175486188089689 20.977963420849122 16.125933331464172 14.463195838764342 -8.7402651524107196 28.738037941409299 14.141523994554284 -10.913634292996555 2.308088729363611E-3 17.679999990231778 17.980115579710887 -18.515690832626596 -28.388077637178476 38.472647364917911 26.587333430032434 -2.6371011008165191 9.2748088856475555 25.562078483709595 33.669806518751997 -3.7497683276416338 18.710258929201864 23.465908304118766 3.0471851012177975 32.564473286814845 16.094964678606559 2.2744698600000168 17.941559160152277 29.173814576344803 -6.18098847990316 34.204405572600891 8.9675204521230789 11.28143522090248 -6.4608004253374762E-2 36.448607135077204 21.211218937631205 31.291139868661013 23.430953040855051 23.559288031736301 -10.89413490207175 -10.974029063949098 -20.859723996178005 31.640676972787052 12.478711419415678 6.3765130403387715 15.773374236877347 5.6152551466969403 -37.23475246128595 28.304061445005434 17.164376597819398 0.97650719266695329 16.057211087738278 33.06Year
Rate of return (%)
Expected Return
| Expected market return | = | interest rate on Treasury bills | + | normal risk premium |
| (1981) 21.6% | = | 14 | + | 7.6 |
| (2014) 7.7% | = | .1 | + | 7.6 |
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Expected Returns
| 1900-1926 | 1927-1955 | 1956-1983 | 1984-2013 | |
| Stocks | 11.0% | 11.6% | 11.0% | 12.4% |
| Treasury bills | 4.9% | 1.0% | 5.6% | 4.0% |
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Country Risk Premiums (%)
Country risk premiums (1900-2013)
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Measuring Risk
Variance
Average value of squared deviations from mean
A measure of volatility
Standard Deviation
Square root of variance
Another measure of volatility
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Histogram of Returns
% Return
Number of Years
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Measuring Risk
Coin toss game calculating variance and standard deviation
Expected return = (.25 × .40) + (.5 × .10) + (.25 × −.20)
= .10 of 10%
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Risk and Diversification
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Stock Market Volatility 1900-2013
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Standard Deviations
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| Portfolio rate of return | = | fraction of portfolio in first asset | × | rate of return on first asset | |
| + | fraction of portfolio in second asset | × | rate of return on second asset |
Risk and Diversification
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