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Investment Management - Meet 4 - Risk Return
Investment Management - Meet 4 - Risk Return
Investment Management - Meet 4 - Risk Return
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Defining and measuring risk – Cont.
Calculation of Expected Rate of Return:
Martin Product & US Electric
State of the Probability Rate of return on stock if this state occurs
Economy of this State
Occurring
Martin Product US Electric
Expected Rate of Return k Pr1 k1 Pr2 k 2 ... Prn k n
n
Pri ki
t 1
Martin Products US Electric
0.6 0.6
0.5 0.5
0.4 0.4
0.3 0.3
0.2 0.2
0.1 0.1
0 0
-60 -45 -15 0 15 22 30 45 75 90 110 -20 -5 0 5 10 16 20 25
Expected Expected
Rate of Rate of
Return Return
15% 15%
Continuous vs Discrete Probability
Distribution
Continuous Probability Distribution is the
number of possible outcomes is limited or
finite
Discrete Probability Distribution is the
number of possible outcomes is unlimited
or infinite
Measuring Risk: The Standard Deviation
Deviation ki k
Measuring Risk: The Standard Deviation
– continued
n 2
Variance ki k Pri
2
t 1
Measuring Risk: The Standard Deviation
– continued
n 2
Standard 2
Deviation
ki k Pri
t 1
Measuring Risk: The Standard Deviation
– continued (Example)
Use the Martin Product data to measure
risk using standard deviation!
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Risk
CV
Re turn k
Risk Measurement without Probability
If we have a data of stock return from a
sub sector of an Industry, and they are:
10%, -5%, 20%, 11%, 9%, -10%, 12.5%,
14.5%, 15%, and 5%
How we could measure the risk of the
stocks?
The Return Data
Company Return
A 10%
B -5%
C 20%
D 11%
E 9%
F -10%
G 12.5%
H 14.5%
I 15%
J 5%
Total 82%
The Mean
∑ 𝑋𝑖
𝑖=1
𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛=
𝑁
Using Variance and Standard Deviation
to Measure Risk
n
k Mean
2
i
Variance 2 t 1
N
n
k Mean
2
i
Standard 2
t 1
Deviation N
The End
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