Nothing is worse than being stuck in an airport when you have important things to get done. There probably are worse things that could happen to you, but when you are sitting in that airport, waiting to leave, it doesn't seem like there could be. You would rather be anywhere else than sitting in that terminal. Luckily, for most everybody, there are some ways to escape the boredom and being trapped in that interminable terminal.You might already...more
Reason for Stock Portfolio Reason for Stock Portfolio A reason for the treatment of portfolio management as a separate article is that it depends upon the needs and tastes of individual investors. It is possible to estimate expected returns for individual securities without regard to any investor, but it is impossible to construct a portfolio which is optimum for an individual investor without taking his needs and tastes into account....more
Lending and Borrowing Lending and BorrowingA natural extension of the Markowitz analysis was to consider the problem of building portfolios which included riskless assets and portfolios purchased in part with borrowed funds as well as portfolios of risky assets paid for in full with the investor's equity. Click Here To: Protect Your Investments Today! Recall that the efficient frontier for portfolios made up of many risky assets is typically concave from below in the plane whose axes are risk (as measured by the standard deviation) and expected return. For any given period of time, there are assets whose rates of return can be predicted with virtual certainty. Since nuclear holocausts, natural disasters, and revolution are conceivable, the word "virtual" is necessary in the preceding sentence. Nevertheless, most investors have an extraordinarily great confidence that they can predict accurately the rate of return on securities of the federal government for any period which is equal to their maturity. For example, Treasury bills maturing in one year have a precisely predictable rate of return for one year.*The introduction of riskless assets into portfolios has...more
UTILITY, RISK AVERSION, AND OPTIMALITY UTILITY, RISK AVERSION, AND OPTIMALITYThe previous articles I have written on this subject have been based on the assumption that most investors like high rates of return but dislike risk. The definition of efficient portfolios follows from this. Given predictions about individual securities and their...more
Borrowing and Lending Rates Borrowing and Lending Rates Equally unrealistic is the assumption of identical borrowing and lending rates for the investor. The risks involved in lending money to the federal government are less than the risks of lending money to ordinary investors, and investors therefore pay higher rates of inter est on...more
Bonds Compared with Stocks Bonds Compared with StocksIt is perfectly clear that bonds are less risky than stocks when both classes of securities are issued by the same corporation. Since bondholders have a prior claim to the earnings and assets of the corporation, the rates of return on bonds are less variable and more confidently predicted than rates of return on the common stock. This fact is so obvious that it has not been studied and does not require study. Click Here To: Protect Your Investments Today! A more interesting question is whether bonds as a whole are less risky than stocks, and what the relationship is between rates of return on bonds and rates on stocks. It is possible, though not true, that bonds are issued only by corporations whose earnings are extremely uncertain, while corporations with only common stock in their capital structure have extremely stable and predictable earnings. It is thus theoretically possible that bonds as a group are as risky as common stocks. In the real world, things are not this way, since debt-equity ratios tend to be highest for corporations with relatively stable earnings—the utilities, for example. Thus,...more
What Are Common Stocks? What Are Common Stocks?Things have proceeded satisfactorily so far. Average rates of return on low-class bonds have been greater than rates on high-class bonds, and rates on common stocks have on the average generally...more
Understanding Stock Transaction Costs Understanding Stock Transaction Costs There are transaction costs in managing actual portfolios, but there are no transaction costs attributed to the hypothetical portfolios repre sented by market...more
Taxes and Your Stock Portfolio Taxes and Your Stock PortfolioOften, academic discussions of the theory of portfolio management achieve lucidity through the simplication of assuming no taxes. For some important classes of portfolios, the...more
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