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Security A has an expected rate of return of 0.10 and a beta of 1.3.The market expected rate of return is 0.10, and the risk-free rate is 0.04.The alpha of the stock is


A) 1.7%.
B) -1.8%.
C) 8.3%.
D) 5.5%.

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According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) , which one of the following statements is false?


A) The expected rate of return on a security increases in direct proportion to a decrease in the risk-free rate.
B) The expected rate of return on a security increases as its beta increases.
C) A fairly priced security has an alpha of zero.
D) In equilibrium, all securities lie on the security market line.

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As a financial analyst, you are tasked with evaluating a capital-budgeting project.You were instructed to use the IRR method, and you need to determine an appropriate hurdle rate.The risk-free rate is 4%, and the expected market rate of return is 11%.Your company has a beta of 0.67, and the project that you are evaluating is considered to have risk equal to the average project that the company has accepted in the past.According to CAPM, the appropriate hurdle rate would be


A) 4%.
B) 8.69%.
C) 15%.
D) 11%.

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Which statement is not true regarding the market portfolio?


A) It includes all publicly-traded financial assets.
B) It lies on the efficient frontier.
C) All securities in the market portfolio are held in proportion to their market values.
D) It is the tangency point between the capital market line and the indifference curve.

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The expected return-beta relationship


A) is the most familiar expression of the CAPM to practitioners.
B) refers to the way in which the covariance between the returns on a stock and returns on the market measures the contribution of the stock to the variance of the market portfolio, which is beta.
C) assumes that investors hold well-diversified portfolios.
D) All of the options are true.

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A security has an expected rate of return of 0.15 and a beta of 1.25.The market expected rate of return is 0.10, and the risk-free rate is 0.04.The alpha of the stock is


A) 1.7%.
B) -1.7%.
C) 8.3%.
D) 3.5%.

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According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) , underpriced securities have


A) positive betas.
B) zeroalphas.
C) negative betas.
D) positive alphas.

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Your opinion is that security C has an expected rate of return of 0.106.It has a beta of 1.1.The risk-free rate is 0.04, and the market expected rate of return is 0.10.According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model, this security is


A) underpriced.
B) overpriced.
C) fairly priced.
D) Cannot be determined from data provided.

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In the context of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) , the relevant measure of risk is


A) unique risk.
B) beta.
C) standard deviation of returns.
D) variance of returns.

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According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) , a well diversified portfolio's rate of return is a function of


A) systematic risk.
B) unsystematic risk.
C) unique risk.
D) reinvestment risk.

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Fama and French documented the predictive power of


A) Beta only for asset returns.
B) Alpha on asset returns.
C) Yield spread for asset returns.
D) Liquidity premium for asset returns.

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The expected return-beta relationship of the CAPM is graphically represented by


A) the security-market line.
B) the capital-market line.
C) the capital-allocation line.
D) the efficient frontier with a risk-free asset.

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The risk-free rate is 7%.The expected market rate of return is 15%.If you expect a stock with a beta of 1.3 to offer a rate of return of 12%, you should


A) buy the stock because it is overpriced.
B) sell short the stock because it is overpriced.
C) sell the stock short because it is underpriced.
D) buy the stock because it is underpriced.

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The risk-free rate is 4%.The expected market rate of return is 12%.If you expect stock X with a beta of 1.0 to offer a rate of return of 10%, you should


A) buy stock X because it is overpriced.
B) sell short stock X because it is overpriced.
C) sell short stock X because it is underpriced.
D) buy stock X because it is underpriced.

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The security market line (SML)


A) can be portrayed graphically as the expected return-beta relationship.
B) can be portrayed graphically as the expected return-standard deviation of market-returns relationship.
C) provides a benchmark for evaluation of investment performance.
D) can be portrayed graphically as the expected return-beta relationship and provides a benchmark for evaluation of investment performance.

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Fama and French documented


A) that CAPM is confirmed in empirical studies.
B) number of other extra-market risk factors.
C) Beta tends to 1 over time.
D) CAPM is not testable in practice.

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In the context of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) , the relevant risk is


A) unique risk.
B) market risk.
C) standard deviation of returns.
D) variance of returns.

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The security market line (SML) is


A) the line that describes the expected return-beta relationship for well-diversified portfolios only.
B) also called the capital allocation line.
C) the line that is tangent to the efficient frontier of all risky assets.
D) the line that represents the expected return-beta relationship.

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The risk-free rate is 4%.The expected market rate of return is 11%.If you expect CAT with a beta of 1.0 to offer a rate of return of 13%, you should


A) buy CAT because it is overpriced.
B) sell short CAT because it is overpriced.
C) sell short CAT because it is underpriced.
D) buy CAT because it is underpriced.

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As a financial analyst, you are tasked with evaluating a capital-budgeting project.You were instructed to use the IRR method, and you need to determine an appropriate hurdle rate.The risk-free rate is 5%, and the expected market rate of return is 10%.Your company has a beta of 0.67, and the project that you are evaluating is considered to have risk equal to the average project that the company has accepted in the past.According to CAPM, the appropriate hurdle rate would be


A) 10%.
B) 5%.
C) 8.35%.
D) 28.35%.

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