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What is the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)?

Andrew Stolz

When an investor buys a particular security, they consider the risk of that security relative to the riskiness of the overall market and adjust the equity risk premium up or down by using Beta. Investments are exposed to two types of risk: systematic and unsystematic. beta of a stock). E(r) = Rf + ??(Rm