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    Chapter 6

    Why Diversif ication I s a Good I dea

    Portfolio Construction, Management, & Protection, 4e, Robert A. Strong

    Copyright 2006 by South-Western, a division of Thomson Business & Economics. All rights reserved.

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    Outline Introduction

    Carrying Your Eggs in More Than One Basket

    Role of Uncorrelated Securities

    Lessons from Evans and Archer

    Diversification and Beta

    Capital Asset Pricing Model

    Equity Risk Premium

    Using a Scatter Diagram to Measure Beta

    Arbitrage Pricing Theory

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    IntroductionDiversification of a portfolio is logically a

    good idea

    Virtually all stock portfolios seek to

    diversify in one respect or another

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    Carrying Your Eggs in More

    Than One BasketInvestments in Your Own Ego

    The Concept of Risk Aversion Revisited

    Multiple Investment Objectives

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    Investments in Your Own EgoNever put a large percentage of investment

    funds into a single security

    If the security appreciates, the ego is strokedand this may plant a speculative seed

    If the security never moves, the ego views this

    as neutral rather than an opportunity cost

    If the security declines, your ego has a very

    difficult time letting go

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    The Concept of

    Risk Aversion RevisitedDiversification is logical

    If you drop the basket, all eggs break

    Diversification is mathematically sound

    Most people are risk averse

    People take risks only if they believe they willbe rewarded for taking them

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    The Concept of Risk

    Aversion Revisited (contd)Diversification is more important now

    AJournal of Financearticle shows that

    volatility of individual firms has increased

    Investors need more stocks to adequately diversify

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    Multiple Investment ObjectivesMultiple objectives justify carrying your

    eggs in more than one basket

    Some people find mutual funds unexciting Many investors hold their investment funds in

    more than one account so that they can play

    with part of the total

    e.g., a retirement account and a separate brokerage

    account for trading individual securities

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    Variance of a Linear Combination:

    The Practical MeaningOne measure of risk is the variance of

    return

    The variance of an n-security portfolio is:

    2

    1 1

    where proportion of total investment in Security

    correlation coefficient between

    Security and Security

    n n

    p i j ij i j

    i j

    i

    ij

    x x

    x i

    i j

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    Variance of a Linear Combination:

    The Practical Meaning (contd)The variance of a two-security portfolio is:

    2 2 2 2 2 2p A A B B A B AB A Bx x x x

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    Variance of a Linear Combination:

    The Practical Meaning (contd)Return variance is a securitys total risk

    Most investors want portfolio variance to be

    as low as possible without having to give up

    any return

    2 2 2 2 2

    2p A A B B A B AB A Bx x x x

    Total Risk Risk from A Risk from B Interactive Risk

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    Variance of a Linear Combination:

    The Practical Meaning (contd)If two securities have low correlation, the

    interactive risk will be small

    If two securities are uncorrelated, theinteractive risk drops out

    If two securities are negatively correlated,

    interactive risk would be negative andwould reduce total risk

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    Portfolio Programming

    in a NutshellVarious portfolio combinations may result

    in a given return

    The investor wants to choose the portfolio

    combination that provides the least amount

    of variance

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    Portfolio Programming

    in a Nutshell (contd)Example

    Assume the following statistics for Stocks A, B, and C:

    Stock A Stock B Stock C

    Expected return .20 .14 .10Standard deviation .232 .136 .195

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    Portfolio Programming

    in a Nutshell (contd)Example (contd)

    The correlation coefficients between the three stocks are:

    Stock A Stock B Stock C

    Stock A 1.000Stock B 0.286 1.000

    Stock C 0.132 0.605 1.000

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    Portfolio Programming

    in a Nutshell (contd)Example (contd)

    An investor seeks a portfolio return of 12 percent.

    Which combinations of the three stocks accomplish this

    objective? Which of those combinations achieves the least

    amount of risk?

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    Portfolio Programming

    in a Nutshell (contd)Example (contd)

    Solution: Two combinations achieve a 12 percent return:

    1) 50% in B, 50% in C: (.5)(14%) + (.5)(10%) = 12%

    2) 20% in A, 80% in C: (.2)(20%) + (.8)(10%) = 12%

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    Portfolio Programming

    in a Nutshell (contd)Example (contd)

    Solution (contd):Calculate the variance of the B/Ccombination:

    2 2 2 2 2

    2 2

    2

    (.50) (.0185) (.50) (.0380)

    2(.50)(.50)( .605)(.136)(.195)

    .0046 .0095 .0080

    .0061

    p A A B B A B AB A Bx x x x

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    Portfolio Programming

    in a Nutshell (contd)Example (contd)

    Solution (contd):Calculate the variance of the A/Ccombination:

    2 2 2 2 2

    2 2

    2

    (.20) (.0538) (.80) (.0380)

    2(.20)(.80)(.132)(.232)(.195)

    .0022 .0243 .0019

    .0284

    p A A B B A B AB A Bx x x x

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    Portfolio Programming

    in a Nutshell (contd)Example (contd)

    Solution (contd):Investing 50 percent in Stock B and 50percent in Stock C achieves an expected return of 12

    percent with the lower portfolio variance. Thus, the

    investor will likely prefer this combination to the

    alternative of investing 20 percent in Stock A and 80

    percent in Stock C.

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    Concept of Dominance (contd)A portfolio dominates all others if:

    For its level of expected return, there is no

    other portfolio with less risk

    For its level of risk, there is no other portfolio

    with a higher expected return

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    Concept of Dominance (contd)Example (contd)

    In the previous example, the B/C combination dominates the A/C

    combination:

    0

    0.02

    0.04

    0.06

    0.08

    0.1

    0.12

    0.14

    0 0.005 0.01 0.015 0.02 0.025 0.03

    Risk

    Exp

    ec

    tedRe

    turn

    B/C combination

    dominates A/C

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    Harry Markowitz: The

    Founder of Portfolio TheoryIntroduction

    Terminology

    Quadratic Programming

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    Introduction Harry Markowitzs Portfolio SelectionJournal

    of Financearticle (1952) set the stage for modernportfolio theory

    The first major publication indicating the importance ofsecurity return correlation in the construction of stock

    portfolios

    Markowitz showed that for a given level of expectedreturn and for a given security universe, knowledge ofthe covariance and correlation matrices is required

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    TerminologySecurity Universe

    Efficient Frontier

    Capital Market Line and the MarketPortfolio

    Security Market Line

    Expansion of the SML to Four Quadrants

    Corner Portfolio

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    Security UniverseThe security universe is the collection of all

    possible investments

    For some institutions, only certain investmentsmay be eligible

    e.g., the manager of a small cap stock mutual fund

    would not include large cap stocks

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    Efficient Frontier (contd)

    Standard Deviation

    Expected Return100% Investment in Security

    with Highest E(R)

    100% Investment in MinimumVariance Portfolio

    Points plotting below the

    efficient frontier are dominated

    by other portfolios

    No points plot above

    the line

    All portfolios

    on the line

    are efficient

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    Efficient Frontier (contd)The farther you move to the left on the

    efficient frontier, the greater the number of

    securities in the portfolio

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    Efficient Frontier (contd)When a risk-free investment is available,

    the shape of the efficient frontier changes

    The expected return and variance of a risk-freerate/stock return combination are simply a

    weighted average of the two expected returns

    and variances

    The risk-free rate has a variance of zero

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    Efficient Frontier (contd)

    Standard Deviation

    Expected Return

    Rf

    A

    B

    C

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    Efficient Frontier (contd)The efficient frontier with a risk-free rate:

    Extends from the risk-free rate to point B

    The line is tangent to the risky securities efficientfrontier

    Follows the curve from point B to point C

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    Capital Market Line and the

    Market PortfolioThe tangent line passing from the risk-free

    rate through point B is the capital marketline (CML)

    When the security universe includes all possibleinvestments, point B is the market portfolio

    It contains every risky asset in the proportion of itsmarket value to the aggregate market value of allassets

    It is the only risky asset risk-averse investors willhold

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    Capital Market Line and the

    Market Portfolio (contd)Implications for investors:

    Regardless of the level of risk-aversion, allinvestors should hold only two securities:

    The market portfolio

    The risk-free rate

    Conservative investors will choose a point near

    the lower left of the CML Growth-oriented investors will stay near themarket portfolio

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    Capital Market Line and the

    Market Portfolio (contd)Any risky portfolio that is partially invested

    in the risk-free asset is a lending portfolio

    Investors can achieve portfolio returns

    greaterthan the market portfolio by

    constructing a borrowing portfolio

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    Capital Market Line and the

    Market Portfolio (contd)

    Standard Deviation

    Expected Return

    Rf

    A

    B

    C

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    Security Market LineThe graphical relationship between

    expected return and beta is the securitymarket line (SML)

    The slope of the SML is the market price ofrisk

    The slope of the SML changes periodically asthe risk-free rate and the markets expectedreturn change

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    Security Market Line (contd)

    Beta

    Expected Return

    Rf

    Market Portfolio

    1.0

    E(R)

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    Security Market Line (contd)

    Beta

    Expected Return

    Securities with NegativeExpected Returns

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    Corner PortfolioA corner portfoliooccurs every time a new

    security enters an efficient portfolio or an

    old security leaves Moving along the risky efficient frontier from

    right to left, securities are added and deleted

    until you arrive at the minimum variance

    portfolio

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    Quadratic ProgrammingThe Markowitz algorithm is an application

    of quadratic programming

    The objective function involves portfoliovariance

    Quadratic programming is very similar to linear

    programming

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    Markowitz Quadratic

    Programming Problem

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    Lessons from

    Evans and ArcherIntroduction

    Methodology

    Results

    Implications

    Words of Caution

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    Introduction

    Evans and Archers 1968Journal ofFinancearticle

    Very consequential research regarding portfolioconstruction

    Shows how nave diversificationreduces the

    dispersion of returns in a stock portfolioNave diversification refers to the selection ofportfolio components randomly without any serioussecurity analysis

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    Methodology

    Used computer simulations:

    Measured the average variance of portfolios of

    different sizes, up to portfolios with dozens ofcomponents

    Purpose was to investigate the effects of

    portfolio size on portfolio risk when securities

    are randomly selected

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    Results

    Definitions

    General Results

    Strength in Numbers

    Biggest Benefits Come First

    Superfluous Diversification

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    Definitions (contd)

    Investors are rewarded only for systematic

    risk

    Rational investors should always diversify

    Explains why beta (a measure of systematic

    risk) is important

    Securities are priced on the basis of their beta

    coefficients

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    General Results

    Number of Securities

    Portfolio Variance

    Source: Adapted by Edwin J. Elton and Martin J. Gruber, Risk Production and Portfolio Size: An Analytical Solution, Journal of Business,

    October 1977, 415437.

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    Superfluous Diversification

    Superfluous diversificationrefers to theaddition of unnecessary components to analready well-diversified portfolio

    Deals with the diminishing marginal benefits ofadditional portfolio components

    The benefits of additional diversification inlarge portfolios may be outweighed by thetransaction costs

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    Implications

    Very effective diversification occurs evenwhen the investor owns only a smallfraction of the total number of availablesecurities

    Institutional investors may not be able to avoidsuperfluous diversification due to the dollar size

    of their portfoliosMutual funds are prohibited from holding more than5 percent of a firms equity shares

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    Implications (contd)

    Owning all possible securities would

    require high commission costs

    It is difficult to follow every stock

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    Words of Caution

    Selecting securities at random usually gives

    good diversification but not always

    Industry effects may prevent properdiversification

    Although nave diversification reduces risk,

    it can also reduce return Unlike Markowitzs efficient diversification

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    Diversification and Beta

    Beta measures systematic risk

    Diversification does not mean to reduce beta

    Investors differ in the extent to which they willtake risk, so they choose securities with

    different betas

    e.g., an aggressive investor could choose a portfolio

    with a beta of 2.0e.g., a conservative investor could choose a portfolio

    with a beta of 0.5

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    Introduction

    The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

    is a theoretical description of the way in

    which the market prices investment assets The CAPM is a positive theory

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    Fundamental Risk/Return

    Relationship Revisited

    CAPM

    SML and CAPM

    Market Model versus CAPM

    Note on the CAPM Assumptions

    Stationarity of Beta

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    CAPM (contd)

    The CAPM deals with expectations about

    the future

    Excess returns on a particular stock are

    directly related to:

    The beta of the stock The expected excess return on the market

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    CAPM (contd)

    CAPM assumptions:

    Variance of return and mean return are all

    investors care about Investors are price takers; they cannot influence

    the market individually

    All investors have equal and costless access to

    information

    There are no taxes or commission costs

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    CAPM (contd)

    CAPM assumptions (contd):

    Investors look only one period ahead

    Everyone is equally adept at analyzing

    securities and interpreting the news

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    SML and CAPM

    If you show the security market line with

    excess returns on the vertical axis, the

    equation of the SML is the CAPM The intercept is zero

    The slope of the line is the expected market risk

    premium

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    Market Model versus CAPM

    The market model is an ex post model

    It describes past price behavior

    The CAPM is an ex ante model

    It predicts what a value should be

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    Note on the

    CAPM Assumptions

    Several assumptions are unrealistic:

    People pay taxes and commissions

    Many people look ahead more than one period

    Not all investors forecast the same distribution ofreturns for the market

    Theory is useful to the extent that it helps us learn

    more about the way the world acts Empirical testing shows that the CAPM works

    reasonably well

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    Stationarity of Beta

    Beta is not stationary

    Evidence that weekly betas are less than

    monthly betas, especially for high-beta stocks Evidence that the stationarity of beta increases

    as the estimation period increases

    The informed investment manager knows

    that betas change

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    Equity Risk Premium

    Equity risk premiumrefers to thedifference in the average return betweenstocks and some measure of the risk-free

    rate The equity risk premium in the CAPM is the

    excess expected return on the market

    Some researchers are proposing that the size ofthe equity risk premium is shrinking

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    Correlation of Returns

    Much of the daily news is of a generaleconomic nature and affects all securities

    Stock prices often move as a group

    Some stocks routinely move more than theothers regardless of whether the market

    advances or declinesSome stocks are more sensitive to changes ineconomic conditions

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    Linear Regression and Beta

    To obtain beta with a linear regression:

    Plot a stocks return against the market return

    Use Microsoft Excel to run a linear regressionand obtain the coefficients

    The coefficient for the market return is the betastatistic

    The intercept is the trend in the security pricereturns that is inexplicable by finance theory

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    Importance of Logarithms

    Introduction

    Statistical Significance

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    Introduction

    Taking the logarithm of returns reduces the

    impact of outliers

    Outliers distort the general relationship

    Using logarithms will have more effect the

    more outliers there are

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    Statistical Significance

    Published betas are not always useful

    numbers

    Individual securities have substantialunsystematic risk and will behave differently

    than beta predicts

    Portfolio betas are more useful since some

    unsystematic risk is diversified away

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    Arbitrage Pricing Theory

    APT Background

    The APT Model

    Comparison of the CAPM and the APT

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    APT Background

    Arbitrage pricing theory (APT)states that a

    number of distinct factors determine the market

    return

    Roll and Ross state that a securitys long-run return is a

    function of changes in:

    Inflation

    Industrial production

    Risk premiums The slope of the term structure of interest rates

    Another alternative = Fama & Frenchs 3-Factor Model

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    APT Background (contd)

    Not all analysts are concerned with the

    same set of economic information

    A single market measure (such as beta) doesnot capture all the information relevant to the

    price of a stock

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    Comparison of the

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    Comparison of the

    CAPM and the APT

    The CAPMs market portfolio is difficult to

    construct:

    Theoretically, all assets should be included (real estate,

    gold, etc.)

    Practically, a proxy like the S&P 500 index is used

    APT requires specification of the relevantmacroeconomic factors

    Comparison of the

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    Comparison of the

    CAPM and the APT (contd)

    The CAPM and APT complement each

    other rather than compete

    Both models predict that positive returns willresult from factor sensitivities that move with

    the market and vice versa APT can be viewed as a more general and more flexible

    version of CAPM

    Instead of having one all-encompassing measure of systematic

    risk, APT breaks down the measure of systematic risk into a

    variety of different variables that either drive or reflect

    differences in systematic risk