🎓CFA Final Prep All Topics

Deck 2 – Portfolio Risk & Return: Part I

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What is the equity risk premium in CAPM?

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E(RM​)−Rf​, the market's excess expected return.

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What does the Capital Market Line apply to that the Security Market Line does not?

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Efficient portfolios only.

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Why does CAPM use eta rather than total volatility to determine a security's required return?

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Because only systematic risk cannot be diversified away.

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Which CAPM assumption says investors agree on expected returns, volatility, and correlations?

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Homogeneous expectations.

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