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Capital Asset Pricing Model, Part Two – Systematic Risk

Capital Asset Pricing Model, Part Two – Systematic Risk

We are reviewing the underlying assumptions made by the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Recall from last time the assumption that returns are distributed normally (i.e. a bell-shaped curve) and how this fails to account for skew and fat tails. Today we’ll look at CAPM’s assumption that there is but a single source of priced systematic risk: market beta.

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