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MPF753 T3 2015 – Assignment Part 2 Due by: 4:59PM Monday, 11 th Jan 2015
Q1. Pick any three companies with shares currently listed on the ASX that have been trading for at least
five years. Go to DatAnalysis (accessible via Deakin Library website) and download the adjusted month-‐
end closing stock prices of these companies for the previous 61 months ended 31/10/2015 onto a MS Excel
spreadsheet. Use the downloaded data and perform necessary calculations to answer the questions a) to
c):
a) Compute the individual monthly returns, average monthly return, variance and standard deviation of
the monthly returns for the stocks of the companies you have chosen.
(5 marks)
b) Using the various statistics calculated in a), state which stock has the highest return, which stock has
the highest total risk and which one has the highest return per unit of total risk.
(3 marks)
c) Would the stock with the highest total risk in b) necessarily be the ‘riskiest’ of the three stocks? Discuss
the components of total risk and circumstances in which you can minimize your portfolio risk. (2 mark)
G o to Yahoo Finance and download the adjusted month-‐end closing value of the ASX All Ordinaries Index
(AORD) for last 61 months ended 31/10/2015. Perform necessary calculations to answer questions d) to f):
d) Use the month-‐end adjusted closing values of the AORD to compute individual monthly returns on the
market index.
(2 marks)
e) Briefly describe the beta estimation process as per the CAPM. Using the information in d) along with
the individual monthly returns on each of the three stocks calculated in a), estimate their betas. What
do these betas tell you about the riskiness of these three stocks relative to the market? Assuming a 2%
p.a. risk-‐free rate, calculate the expected return on each of the three stocks using CAPM.
(4 marks)
f) What would happen to the expected rates of return for a risk-‐free rate of 3.5% per annum? What
would they be if the risk-‐free rate was 1.5%? Explain your observations in light of the risk-‐return
relationship.
(4 marks)
Q2. The application of the CAPM in modern financial markets has been much debated and criticized from
an empirical point of view. Does this imply that the theory underlying CAPM is flawed? Outline your
argument. Should we reject the model outright? If you think that the model should be rejected, provide
alternative model(s) to replace it with empirical studies to support your choice. Otherwise, provide the
reasons why CAPM should be kept. (Maximum 1000 words for Q2)
(10 marks)
Total: 30 marks