Alex Sharpe

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The Alex Sharpe Case allows students to:

1. Understand and quantify risks associated with individual stocks and portfolios.

2. Calculate beta using linear regression.

3. Understand the relationship between risk/return and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).

Please write a paper (single-spaced within paragraphs, double-spaced between paragraphs, 12 PT Times New Roman Font, 1 inch margins) answering the following questions:

1. Alex Sharpe sat in her home office and evaluated the investment strategy for her children's educational savings. Currently, money is invested in a Vanguard 500 Index fund, a no-load mutual fund constructed to track the performance of the S&P 500. In order to achieve higher returns, Alex had been considering a more active strategy. She has narrowed down her search to two stocks: Hasbro and R.J. Reynolds. She wants to insure that the expected return on the new portfolio would provide adequate compensation for taking on any new risky assets.

CLIENT PROFILE: Who is Alex Sharpe and what are her objectives.

QUESTION 1: Estimate and compare the returns and variability (i.e., annual standard deviation over the past five years) of Reynolds and Hasbro with that of the S&P 500 Index. Which stock appears to be riskier?

QUESTION 2: Suppose Sharpe's position had been 99% of equity funds invested in the S&P500 and either 1% in Reynolds or 1% in Hasbro. Estimate the resulting portfolio position. How does each stock affect the variability of the equity investment? How does this relate to your answer in Question 2 above?

QUESTION 3: Perform a regression of each stock's monthly returns on the Index returns to compute a beta for each stock. How does this relate to your answer in Question 2 above?

QUESTION 4: How might the expected return of each stock relate to its riskiness?

QUESTION 5: In what stock(s) (if any) should Sharpe invest?

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Running head: SHARPE’S CASE STUDY

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Sharpe’s Case study
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SHARPE’S CASE STUDY

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1. Estimate the returns viability
The information derived from the data provided, the least risky stock is S&P 500 index.
The monthly standard deviation of S&P 500 is 3.6% while the annual standard deviation of
12.48% (Southam, n.d). This indicates that for the last five years 68% of the data points have
fallen.
Hasbro’s secures the second place in terms of least risky. The monthly standard deviation
of the company’s stock is around 8.12% while that of one year sums up to 28.11%. This is about
double of what S&P 500 has.
Lastly, the riskiest stock is that of Reynold. It has a monthly standard deviation of 9.17,
and the annual standard deviation is 32.45.
2. Suppose Sharpe’s position had been 99% ...


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