January 2013
Intermediate to advanced
554 pages
17h 42m
English
book
Modern Portfolio Theory: Foundations, Analysis, and New Developments, + Website
by Jack Clark Francis, Dongcheol Kim
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Chapter 8
Index Models and Return-Generating Process
Index models are more than regressions that explain an investment's holding period returns, they are also important statements about the economic process that generates the returns. This chapter considers single-index models, two-index models, and multi-index models.
8.1 Single-Index Models
Single-index models are the simplest and most popular type of generating process used to explain what economic forces create investors' returns. They are also used to estimate a firm's undiversifiable systematic risk.
8.1.1 Return-Generating Functions
Preceding chapters suggested the single-period rate of return is the basic random variable of portfolio theory. As explained previously, for a share of common or preferred stock, a bond, a real estate investment, or other investments, this holding period return (HPR) is computed as follows.
or equivalently,
where 
, is the rate of return, or holding period return (HPR); Pt represents the market price at time t; and dt stands for cash dividend income, or other source of income received during the holding period.
This chapter reviews the historical development of two similar, yet significantly different, ...
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