CAPM Paper

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November 24, 2015

 

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Markowitz's paper presented the notion of an "efficient frontier" of optimal investment that advocated a diversified portfolio to reduce risk. However, his theory did not develop a practical means to assess how various holdings operate together, or correlate. Sharpe took Markowitz's theoretical work and greatly simplified it by connecting investment risk and reward to a single risk factor (beta) (Burton, 1998)...
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With the publication of his 1963 dissertation A Simplified Model of Portfolio Analysis, Sharpe introduced the world to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Today, CAPM has become an integral part of investment theory and is used on a daily basis by investment practitioners and managers. The concept was deemed so important that in 1990, Sharpe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to the development of the CAPM theory...
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