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Video 12 (Topic 3.2): Risk and Return

Video 12 (Topic 3.2): Risk and Return. FIN 614: Financial Management Larry Schrenk, Instructor. Topics. What is Risk? Stand-Alone Risk Two Classes of Risks. What is Risk?. In Every Facet of our Lives we Face Something Unknown Complete Lack of Knowledge is ‘Ignorance’

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Video 12 (Topic 3.2): Risk and Return

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  1. Video 12 (Topic 3.2):Risk and Return FIN 614: Financial Management Larry Schrenk, Instructor

  2. Topics • What is Risk? • Stand-Alone Risk • Two Classes of Risks

  3. What is Risk? • In Every Facet of our Lives we Face Something Unknown • Complete Lack of Knowledge is ‘Ignorance’ • Some Idea of its Probability is ‘Risk’

  4. Risk vs. Ignorance • Ignorance • If you ask me to put my hand in a box and pull out a mystery object, this is ignorance, since I have no idea what the box may contain. • Risk • If you ask me to put my hand in a box containing an equal number of red and blue balls and ask me to pull out a ball, this is risk • I may not know which color I will get, but I know that the probability is 50-50 for each color. • RiskRational Expectation

  5. The Quantification of Risk • Past Data • Historical Prices • Forward-Looking Data • Assumption: Future Behaves like Past • Statistical Distribution • Distribution, • Mean, • Variance, etc.

  6. ‘Expected’ versus ‘Realized’ • Forecast is only expectation • E[ ] = Expectations Operator • Contrast: realized/actual value • Quantify the forecast error • confidence intervals Note: In cases of ignorance, I could not even form such an expectation.

  7. What is Risk? • Risk: The possibility the realized value will differ from the expected value. • Risk free asset  realized = expected • Greater risk greater likelihood that the realized value will differ from the expected value.

  8. Downside versus Upside Risk • Realized value higher or lower than expected • Upside Risk: Better possibility • Actual stock return higher than expected • Downside Risk: Worse possibility • Actual stock return lower than expected NOTE: Alternate definition–risk as only downside risk

  9. Three Step Analysis of Risk▪ • Identify Risk Exposure • Price Changes, Labor Problems, Exchange Rate Risk • Measure Risk • Historical Prices • Distributions • Volatility • Price Risk • Higher RiskHigher Return • Compensation for Specific Level of Risk • Return, not Dollar, Compensation

  10. Which is Riskier?

  11. Which is Riskier? (cont’d) • Expected Return • Investment A = 10% • Investment B = 10% • Which is Riskier? • Which is more likely to differ from the expected value? • Which is more likely to actually have a return of about 10%?

  12. Risk and Distribution

  13. Stand-Alone Risk • Stand-Alone Risk: Risk of Each Asset Held by Itself • Standard Deviation Measures the Dispersion of Possible Outcomes • For a Single Asset: • Stand-Alone Risk = Standard Deviation

  14. Comparing Investments • Individual Investments with Larger Standard Deviations have More Risk • High risk doesn’t mean you should reject the investment, but: • You should know the risk before investing • You should expect a higher return as compensation for bearing the risk.

  15. Psychological Assumptions • Prefer More Wealth to Less Wealth • Prefer Less Risk to More Risk

  16. Selecting Stocks▪ • Which stock would you choose from each pair?▪ ?

  17. Two Classes of Risk • Thousands of Possible Risks • Two Basic Classes: • Non-Market Risk • Market Risk

  18. Non-Market Risk • Has an effect on… • One firm, • Selection of firms, or • Maybe even an industry, but • Not the market as a whole. • Examples: • A Labor Problem • Change in an Input Price • Litigation • Etc.

  19. Market Risk • Has an effect on… • Market as a whole • Economy-wide • Examples: • Interest Rate Changes • A Change in the Corporate Tax Rate • Inflation • Etc.

  20. Alternate Names • Non-Market risk is also called: • Microeconomic Risk • Idiosyncratic Risk • Firm/Company Specific Risk • Diversifiable Risk • Non-Systematic Risk • Market risk is also called: • Macroeconomic Risk • Non-Diversifiable Risk • Systematic Risk

  21. Market–Non-Market Continuum▪ • Where Do the Following Risks fall?▪ • Warehouse fire • Change in Social Security tax • Strike in auto industry • Bug found in Windows • Change in foreign exchange rate • Inflation expectations▪

  22. Video 12 (Topic 3.2):Risk and Return FIN 614: Financial Management Larry Schrenk, Instructor

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