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The one-year risk-free rate is 7% and the expected one-year return on the market portfolio is 13%. According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the expected one-year return on security X with a beta of 1.2 is equal to ___________. 

Which of the following is an example of unsystematic risk?

The Sure Tool Company is expected to pay a dividend of $2 in the upcoming year. The risk-free rate of return is 4%, and the expected return on the market portfolio is 14%. Analysts expect the price of Sure Tool shares to be $22 a year from now. The beta of Sure Tool’s stock is 1.25. What is the required rate of return on Sure Tool’s stock?

Suppose you invest in 220 shares of Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) at $70 per share and 240 shares of Yahoo (YHOO) at $20 per If the price of Johnson and Johnson increases to $80 and the price of Yahoo decreases to $18 per share, what is the return on your portfolio?

You have $100 and you can invest in a risky asset with an expected one-year rate of return of 11% and a standard deviation of 21% and a T-bill with a one-year rate of return of 4.5%. If these are the only two assets in which you can invest, how can you form a portfolio that has an expected value of $114 one year from today?

Your personal opinion is that a security has an expected one-year rate of return of 11%. The security has a beta of 1.5. If the one-year risk-free rate is 5% and the expected market risk premium is 4%, according to the Capital Asset Pricing Model this security is                              .

Which of the portfolios listed below had the largest average annual arithmetic return over the period from 1926 through 2019?

Burton Malkiel makes all of the following points in A Random Walk Down Wall Street (chapter 7) EXCEPT:

The realized nominal rate of interest is almost always greater than the real rate of interest.

Over the past year, you earned a nominal rate of interest of 8% on your The inflation rate was 3.5% over the same period. The exact actual growth rate of your purchasing power was ___________.