1. Chapter Ten Some Lessons from Capital Market History
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2. Chapter Organisation 10.1 Returns 10.2 Inflation and Returns
The Historical Record
Average Returns: The First Lesson
The Variability of Returns: The Second Lesson
Capital Market Efficiency
Summary and Conclusions
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3. Chapter Objectives
Distinguish between dollar returns and percentage returns.
Examine the effect of inflation on returns.
Gain an appreciation of historical returns and their variability for different assets.
Calculate average return and standard deviation.
Discuss market efficiency and its three forms.
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4. Dollar Returns The gain (or loss) from an investment.
Made up of two components:
income (e.g. dividends, interest payments)
capital gain (or loss).
Not necessary to sell investment to include capital gain or loss in return.
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5. Percentage Returns
Dividends paid at Change in market end of period value over period Percentage return = Beginning market value
Dividends paid at Market value end of period at end of period 1 + Percentage return = Beginning market value + +
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6. Percentage Return Example
Pt = $ Pt+1 = $ Dt+1 = $1.85
Per dollar invested we get 5 cents in dividends and 9 cents in capital gains—a total of 14 cents or a return of 14 per cent.
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7. Percentage Returns Total $42.18 Inflows Dividends $1.85
Ending market value
$40.33
Time t
t = 1
Outflows
– $37
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8. Real versus Nominal Returns
Real return is the return after taking out the effects of inflation.
Real return shows the percentage change in buying power.
Nominal return is the return before taking out the effects of inflation.
Nominal return is the percentage change in the number of dollars you have.
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9. The Fisher Effect R ≈ r + h
The Fisher effect explores the relationship between real returns (r), nominal returns (R), and inflation (h).
The nominal rate is approximately equal to the real rate plus the inflation rate.
R ≈ r + h
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10. Capital Market History
Risky securities, such as stocks, have had higher average returns than riskless securities, such as Treasury Bills.
Stocks of small companies have had higher average returns than those of large companies.
Long-term bonds have had higher average yields and returns than short-term bonds.
The cost of capital for a company, project, or division can be predicted using data from the markets.
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11. A$1 Invested in Different Types of Portfolios, 1979-2006
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12. Consumer Price Index (CPI) 1979-2006
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13. All Ordinaries Accumulation Index 1979-2006
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14. Returns on Small Cap Shares 1979-2006
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15. Returns on 10-year Bonds 1979-2006
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16. Returns on 90-day Bank Bills 1979-2006
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17. Average Returns: The First Lesson
A way to calculate the average returns on different investments is simply to add up returns for a number of periods and divide by the number of periods (e.g. years, months, days, etc).
The risk premium is the excess return required from an investment in a risky asset over a risk-free investment.
Lesson from History: Risky assets, on average, earn a risk premium (i.e. there is a reward for bearing risk).
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18. Average Equivalent Returns & Risk Premiums 1979–2006
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19. Variability: The Second Lesson
The greater the risk, the greater the potential reward.
This lesson holds over the long term but may not be valid for the short term.
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20. Frequency of Returns on Ordinary Shares 1901-2006
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21. Variance and Standard Deviation
Measures of variability.
Variance is the average squared deviation between the actual return and the average return.
Standard deviation is the square root of the variance.
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22. Example—Variance and Standard Deviation
ABC Co. have experienced the following returns in the last five years:
Year
Returns
2002
-10%
2003 5%
2004
30%
2005
18%
2006
10%
Calculate the average return and the standard deviation.
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23. Example—Variance and Standard Deviation
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24. Example—Variance and Standard Deviation
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25. Historical Returns and Standard Deviations, 1979-2006
Conclusion: Historically, the riskier the asset, the greater the return.
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26. The Normal Distribution
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27. Capital Market Efficiency
The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) asserts that the price of a security accurately reflects all available information.
Implies that all investments have a zero NPV.
Implies also that all securities are fairly priced.
If this is true then investors cannot earn ‘abnormal’ or ‘excess’ returns.
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28. Price Behaviour in Efficient and Inefficient Markets
Overreaction and correction
220
180
140
100
Delayed reaction
Efficient market reaction
Days relative to announcement day –8 –6 –4 –2 +2 +4 +6 +7
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29. What Makes Markets Efficient?
There are many investors out there doing research:
As new information comes into the market, this information is analysed and trades are made based on this information.
Therefore, prices should reflect all available public information.
If investors stop researching stocks, then the market will not be efficient.
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30. EMH: Common misconceptions
Efficient markets do not mean that you can’t make money.
They do mean that, on average, you will earn a return that is appropriate for the risk undertaken and that there is not a bias in prices that can be exploited to earn excess returns.
Market efficiency will not protect you from making the wrong choices if you do not diversify—you still don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket.
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31. Price Behaviour in Efficient and Inefficient Markets
Efficient market reaction: The price instantaneously adjusts to and fully reflects new information. There is no tendency for subsequent increases and decreases.
Delayed reaction: The price partially adjusts to the new information. Several days elapse before the price completely reflects the new information.
Overreaction: The price over-adjusts to the new information. It ‘overshoots’ the new price and subsequently corrects itself.
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32. Forms of Market Efficiency
Weak-form efficiency: Current prices reflect information contained in the past series of prices.
Semi-strong form efficiency: Current prices reflect information contained in the past series of prices and all other publicly available information.
Strong-form efficiency: Current prices reflect all available information (e.g. past series of prices, public information and private information).
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33. Summary and Conclusions
Risky assets, on average, earn a risk premium.
The greater the potential reward from a risky investment, the greater the risk.
In an efficient market, prices adjust quickly and correctly to new information.
The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) states that well organised capital markets are efficient and investors cannot make abnormal returns.
Asset prices in efficient markets are rarely over or under priced because ‘all available’ information has already been factored into the price and investors get exactly what they pay for.
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