Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780134083278
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 13.5, Problem 2CC
Summary Introduction
To determine: Why the returns of the fund manager’s fund to investors do not have positive alphas.
Introduction: Stock alpha is the overabundance risk of a required return, which implies that it is controlled by subtracting the required return of the stock as per SML (security market line) from the expected return of the stock.
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