FINS5513 Derivation of the CAPM
Derivation of the CAPM
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FINS5513 Lecture 3
CAPM and SIM
2❑ 3.1 General Equilibrium: Derivation of the CAPM
➢ Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Assumptions
➢ The Market Portfolio and Capital Market Line
➢ Derivation of the CAPM
❑ 3.2 Interpreting the CAPM
➢ Beta
➢ Systematic and Unsystematic Risk
➢ Security Market Line
➢ Applications and Extensions of the CAPM
❑ 3.3 The Single Index Model (SIM)
➢ Limitations of the CAPM
➢ SIM
➢ Alpha
➢ SIM Risk Measures
Lecture Outline
3.1 General
Equilibrium: Derivation
of the CAPM
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4Capital Asset Pricing Model
(CAPM) Assumptions
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5❑ Markowitz established modern portfolio theory through important contributions in 1952 and
1959
❑ Based on this work, Sharpe, Lintner, Mossin and others published papers between 1964-
1966 which collectively became known as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
❑ CAPM is a model for deriving expected returns on risky assets under equilibrium conditions
❑ CAPM is derived under a general equilibrium framework.The assumptions under which the
CAPM is derived simplify the world with regard to:
➢ Individual behaviour
➢ Market structure
❑ The CAPM assumptions are often considered to be stylised and not reflective of reality
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Evolution
6❑ Individual behaviour
➢ Investors are rational, mean-variance optimisers (as per Markowitz)
➢ Investors are price takers - no investor is large enough to influence equilibrium prices
➢ Investors common planning horizon is a single period
➢ Investors have homogeneous expectations on the statistical properties of all assets (i.e.
same expected returns and covariances and all relevant information is publicly available)
❑ Market structure
➢ Investors can borrow and lend at a common risk-free rate with no borrowing constraints
➢ All assets are publicly held and traded on public exchanges
➢ Perfect capital markets - there are no financial frictions such as short selling constraints,
transaction costs, taxes etc
❑ Under these assumptions, all investors derive the same efficient frontier, CAL, and ∗
CAPM Assumptions
7The Market Portfolio and
Capital Market Line
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8❑ The foundations of the CAPM come from Markowitz and separation theorem:
➢ Sharpe began with the question “What if everyone is optimising a la Markowitz?”
❑ Under separation theorem, EVERY rational investor invests along the CAL, regardless of risk
aversion – because all portfolio combinations on the CAL have the highest Sharpe ratio
❑ Therefore, in market equilibrium all investors hold the same optimal risky portfolio ∗
❑ If, in equilibrium, all investors are holding the same ∗, this must be the market portfolio ,
and must comprise all assets
➢ The weight of each asset in is the asset’s market value divided by the total value of
➢ Every investor holds some portion of this market portfolio
❑ Since ∗ is the market portfolio , also has the highest possible Sharpe ratio
Separation Theorem Implications
9❑ The rational way to increase return (and risk) is to invest more in (rather than deviating
from and buying risky assets in different weightings to their weightings in )
❑ Since every investor invests in , the common CAL associated with is called the Capital
Market Line (CML)
The Capital Market Line
❑ The CML is equivalent to the optimal CAL. It is
the aggregation of EVERY investors’ CAL
which are all the same
❑ is equivalent to ∗. It is the aggregation of
EVERY investor’s optimal risky portfolio ∗
which are all the same
❑ Every investor invests along the CML.
Movements along the CML represent different
allocations between and the risk-free asset
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❑ An investor can implement an entirely passive strategy requiring no security analysis
❑ Requires two assets:
➢ Risk-free: short-term T-Bills or money market mutual fund
➢ Risky: mutual fund or an ETF tracking a broad-based market index (eg the S&P500)
❑ Then, draw a line joining the two assets. This represents is a practical version of the CML
❑ According to BKM Table 6.7, the U.S. equity market returned 11.72% with a standard
deviation of 20.36% (assume for simplicity this represents the Market portfolio although it is
only a proxy) and 1-month T-bills (the risk-free asset) returned 3.38% between 1926 and
2018.
a) Draw the Capital Market Line. What is the slope of this line and what does it represent?
b) Aggressive Investor A and Conservative Investor C target maximum portfolio risk of 25%
and 14% respectively. For investors A and C: calculate their allocation to the equity market
(∗) and T-bills (1 − ∗), the expected return on their complete portfolio (∗), the Sharpe
ratio of their complete portfolio, and their implied risk aversion coefficient .
Example: A Practical CML
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➢ The slope of the CML is the market’s Sharpe ratio
Risk Premium = 0.1172 - 0.0338 = 8.34%
Market Sharpe ratio =
0.0834
0.2036
= 0.41
Example: A Practical CML
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Excel: “CML and SML”
Investor A Investor C
% in market 0.25
0.2036
= 122.8%
0.14
0.2036
= 68.8%
% in T-bills 1 − 1.228 = −22.8%
Borrow 22.8% at
1 − 0.688 = 31.2%
Invest 31.2% in T-Bills
Expected Return
()
0.0338 + 1.228 × 0.0834
= 13.62%
0.0338 + 0.688 × 0.0834
= 9.11%
Risk 25% 14%
Sharpe Ratio 0.1362 − 0.0338
0.25
= 0.41
0.0911 − 0.0338
0.14
= 0.41
Risk Aversion
()
0.0834
1.228 × 0.20362
= 1.64
0.0834
0.688 × 0.20362
= 2.93
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❑ We know from week 1 (1.4) that:
➢ An individual asset’s effect on portfolio return is simply proportional to its weight
➢ However, its effect on portfolio risk depends on its covariance with other portfolio assets
❑ We have already concluded that under the CAPM assumptions, every investor would hold
for their risky asset allocation. Therefore:
➢ The attractiveness of an individual asset should be assessed based on its contribution to
market return and market risk
• Individual asset contribution to market return simply depends on its return (and weight)
• However, its contribution to market risk depends on its covariance with all other assets
in the market
❑ So, the risk of an individual asset is no longer measured just by its own variance, but rather its
covariance with the market
➢ In equilibrium, this is now our key measure of risk
➢ This is a key insight of the CAPM
The Market Portfolio
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❑ Let’s restate the previous slide mathematically (using risk premium instead of raw return):
❑ The risk premium on the market portfolio (RM ) is:
= σ=1
() = σ=1
()
ℎ =
σ=1
ℎ ℎ
➢ So, asset ’s contribution to ’s risk premium is ()
❑ The risk on the market portfolio (
2 ) is:
2 = , = σ=1
,
= σ=1
,
➢ So, asset ’s contribution to ’s risk (variance) is ,
Under CAPM Risk is Measured by Covariance
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Derivation of the CAPM
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❑ Where have the CAPM assumptions taken us so far?:
1. In equilibrium, all rational investors would hold
2. If investors are holding , the risk measure for an individual asset is its covariance with
❑ From our previous slide, given individual asset risk is measured as covariance with the
market, let’s define a reward-to-risk ratio for any asset as:
′
′
=
()
( , )
=
()
( , )
❑ Next, consider this: in a world of homogeneous expectations, there would be no reason for an
investor to buy an asset with a lower reward-to-risk ratio than another asset
➢ If one asset had a higher reward-to-risk ratio than another, all investors would buy it, until
it’s reward-to-risk ratio was in parity with all other assets
• Therefore, in equilibrium, all assets should have the same reward-to-risk ratio:
()
( , )
=
()
( , )
(, … )
Deriving the CAPM
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❑ In equilibrium, would have the highest Sharpe ratio and would therefore also have the
highest reward-to-risk ratio given by:
()
( , )
=
()
2
❑ In equilibrium, any individual asset’s reward-to-risk ratio should equal ’s reward-to-risk ratio
(the highest possible reward-to-risk ratio). If this were not the case, the price of the asset
would adjust until its ratio is in parity with all other assets within and with itself:
()
( , )
=
2
Rearranging: =
,
2 ()
Defining: =
,
2 Then: =
Often stated as the CAPM equation: − = [ − ]
Deriving the CAPM
3.2 Interpreting the
CAPM
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❑ The market risk premium − or can be regarded as the average risk premium
among all assets in the market
❑ The market risk premium depends on the average risk aversion of all market participants
➢ Recall that each individual investor chooses an allocation to the optimal portfolio (in a
general equilibrium) such that
=
−
2 ,
ℎ ℎ ℎ
➢ In the CAPM economy, all borrowing is offset by lending, so on average = 1
Therefore: =
2
➢ Therefore, the market risk premium tends to expand when average risk aversion in
the market rises (to encourage risk taking) and contract when average market risk
aversion falls
Market Risk Premium
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Beta
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❑ Let’s review the CAPM equation: − = [ − ]
Which can be restated as: =
❑ So, asset ’s expected return above the risk-free rate (its “risk premium”) equals:
×
➢ Risk is measured by its relative contribution to the variance of , which is it’s :
• =
,
2 which tells us how asset moves with
➢ Price of Risk is the market risk premium: −
• There is one price of risk in the market
❑ In equilibrium, more risky assets are compensated with higher expected returns to make them
equally favourable to less risky ones
➢ One of the reasons the CAPM is widely used is because it is simple and intuitive
➢ It basically states that asset ’s risk premium is linearly related to the market risk
premium according to it’s
Interpretation of the CAPM
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❑ Rather than running covariances between each individual asset in the portfolio, as we do
under the Markowitz model, we estimate each asset’s return as a function of its covariance
with one common factor - the market return under CAPM
➢ This significantly reduces the calculations we need to make
➢ Importantly, the relates each asset’s return to the market return
❑ can be < 0 and can be > 1:
➢ > 1 means that , >
2 - the asset contributes more risk than the average
asset (or is riskier than the market)
➢ < 1 means that , <
2 - the asset contributes less risk than the average asset
(or is less risky than the market)
❑ Derived by regression – we will see how in lecture 4 and the iLab
❑ One of the most important concepts in finance and widely used in industry
What is ?
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❑ Assume in a CAPM equilibrium the market’s expected return () = 11.0%, the risk-free rate
= 3.0% and the market’s variance
2 = 0.0256. Applying CAPM, Asset A has expected
return of () = 12.6% and Asset B has expected return of () = 8.6%.
a) What is the market risk premium?
b) What is the of Asset A and B
c) What is the covariance of Asset A and B with the market return (respectively)?