Consider the Security Market Line (SML). What determines its vertical intercept? What determines its slope? And what will happen to an asset’s price if it initially plots onto a point above the SML?

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A: Standard deviation is the measure of risk of security and shows dispersion from mean.

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Q: What is the value of the security market line?

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Q: The Security Market Line plots _________ against ___________?

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Q: Select all the events that could cause the price of a security to increase.

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Q: How Security Market Indices is constructed? Briefly describe the types of Security Market Indices

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Treasury Market

On-the-run securities are the most recently issued securities in the market depth and are therefore traded at some premium. The off-the-run securities are the ones issued just before the most recent ones. The on-the-run securities have a lower yield to the investor than the off-the-run securities.