Assume That as a Portfolio Manager the Beta of Your

question 56

Multiple Choice

Assume that as a portfolio manager the beta of your portfolio is 1.3 and that your performance is exactly on target with the SML data under condition 1. If the true SML data is given by condition 2, how much does your performance differ from the true SML?

• A) 4.2 percent lower
• B) 3.6 percent lower
• C) 3.8 percent lower
• D) 4.2 percent higher
• E) 3.6 percent higher

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Definitions:

Standard Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, also represented by the standard normal curve.

Z-score

A measure that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, represented in units of standard deviation.

Third Quartile

The value that divides the top 25% of a data set from the bottom 75%, often used as a measure of data spread.

Quartile

A type of quantile which divides the range of a probability distribution into four intervals of equal probability, used in describing the spread of a dataset.