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Asset Pricing Model

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Asset pricing model
A model for determining the required or expected rate of return on an asset. Related: Capital asset pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory.

Asset Pricing Model
Any of several models used to determine the appropriate price or return on an asset at a given level of risk. Prominent examples include the capital asset pricing model and the arbitrage pricing theory.


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Finance textbooks are replete with theories like the Modern Portfolio Theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model that have been built on this (very shaky) foundation.
The efficient market hypothesis told us that prices are always right because they reflect all known information; the capital asset pricing model told us that we could diversify away company risk and achieve optimal systematic risk; and the Black-Scholes formula told us that we could then virtually eliminate systematic risk through options or portfolio insurance--shorting the market as it falls, thereby escaping loss.
Was I victimized by a misconception captured in the capital asset pricing model of higher risks always translating to higher rewards?
 
 
 
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