Solution Manual for Fundamentals of Investments Valuation
and Management, 10th Edition by Bradford Jordan and
Thomas Miller and Steve Dolvin
Solution Manual For
Fundamentals of Investments Valuation and Management, 10th Edition Jordan
Chapter 1-21
Chapter 1
A Brief History of Risk and Return
Concept Questions
1. For both risk and return, increasing order is b, c, a, d. On average, the higher the risk of an investment,
the higher is its expected return.
2. Since the price didn’t change, the capital gains yield was zero. If the total return was four percent, then
the dividend yield must be four percent.
3. It is impossible to lose more than –100 percent of your investment. Therefore, return distributions are
cut off on the lower tail at –100 percent; if returns were truly normally distributed, you could lose much
more.
4. To calculate an arithmetic return, you sum the returns and divide by the number of returns. As such,
arithmetic returns do not account for the effects of compounding (and, in particular, the effect of
volatility). Geometric returns do account for the effects of compounding and for changes in the base
used for each year’s calculation of returns. As an investor, the more important return of an asset is the
geometric return.
5. Blume’s formula uses the arithmetic and geometric returns along with the number of observations to
approximate a holding period return. When predicting a holding period return, the arithmetic return
will tend to be too high and the geometric return will tend to be too low. Blume’s formula adjusts these
returns for different holding period expected returns.
6. T-bill rates were highest in the early eighties since inflation at the time was relatively high. As we
discuss in our chapter on interest rates, rates on T-bills will almost always be slightly higher than the
expected rate of inflation.
7. Risk premiums are about the same regardless of whether we account for inflation. The reason is that
risk premiums are the difference between two returns, so inflation essentially nets out.
8. Returns, risk premiums, and volatility would all be lower than we estimated because aftertax returns
are smaller than pretax returns.
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and Management, 10th Edition by Bradford Jordan and
Thomas Miller and Steve Dolvin
9. We have seen that T-bills barely kept up with inflation before taxes. After taxes, investors in T-bills
actually lost ground (assuming anything other than a very low tax rate). Thus, an all T-bill strategy will
probably lose money in real dollars for a taxable investor.
10. It is important not to lose sight of the fact that the results we have discussed cover over 80 years, well
beyond the investing lifetime for most of us. There have been extended periods during which small
stocks have done terribly. Thus, one reason most investors will choose not to pursue a 100 percent
stock (particularly small-cap stocks) strategy is that many investors have relatively short horizons, and
high volatility investments may be very inappropriate in such cases. There are other reasons, but we
will defer discussion of these to later chapters.
11.
Solutions to Questions and Problems
NOTE: All end of chapter problems were solved using a spreadsheet. Many problems require multiple steps.
Due to space and readability constraints, when these intermediate steps are included in this solutions
manual, rounding may appear to have occurred. However, the final answer for each problem is found
without rounding during any step in the problem.
Core Questions
1. Total dollar return = 100($41 – $37 + $.28) = $428.00
Whether you choose to sell the stock does not affect the gain or loss for the year; your stock is worth
what it would bring if you sold it. Whether you choose to do so or not is irrelevant (ignoring
commissions and taxes).
2. Capital gains yield $41 – $37 / $37 .1081, or 10.81% Dividend yield $.28/$37 .0076, or .76%
Total rate of return 10.81% .76% 11.57%
3. Dollar return = 500($34 – $37 + $.28) = –$1,360
Capital gains yield $34 – $37 /$37 –.0811, or –8.11%
Dividend yield $.28/$37 .0076, or .76% Total rate of return = –
8.11% + .76% = –7.35%
4.
a. average return = 6.0%, average risk premium = 2.7%
b. average return = 3.3%, average risk premium = 0%
c. average return = 12.3%, average risk premium = 9.0%
d. average return = 16.3%, average risk premium = 13.0%
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and Management, 10th Edition by Bradford Jordan and
Thomas Miller and Steve Dolvin
5. Cherry average return 17% 11% – 2% 3% 14% /5 8.60% Straw average return
16% 18% – 6% 1% 22% /5 10.20%
6. Cherry: RA 8.60%
Var 1/ 4 .17 – .086 2
.11 – .086 2
–.02 – .086 2
.03 – .086 2
.14 – .086 2
.00623
1/2
Standard deviation .00623 .0789, or 7.89%
Straw: RB 10.20%
Var 1/ 4 .16 – .102 2 .18 – .102 2 –.06 – .102 2 .01 – .102 2 .22 – .102 2
.01452
1/2
Standard deviation .01452 .1205, or 12.05%
7. The capital gains yield is $59 – $65 /$65 –.0923, or –9.23% (notice the negative sign). With a
dividend yield of 1.2 percent, the total return is –8.03%.
8. Geometric return 1 .17 1 .11 1 .02 1 .03 1 .14 (1/5)
–1 .0837,
or 8.37%
9. Arithmetic return .21 .12 .07 –.13 – .04 . .0817, or 8.17%
(1/6)
Geometric return 1 .21 1 .12 1 .07 1 – .13 1 – .04 1 .26 – 1
.0730, or 7.30%
Intermediate Questions
10. That’s plus or minus one standard deviation, so about two-thirds of the time, or two years out of three. In
one year out of three, you will be outside this range, implying that you will be below it one year out of six
and above it one year out of six.
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and Management, 10th Edition by Bradford Jordan and
Thomas Miller and Steve Dolvin
11. You lose money if you have a negative return. With a 12 percent expected return and a 6 percent standard
deviation, a zero return is two standard deviations below the average. The odds of being outside (above or
below) two standard deviations are 5 percent; the odds of being below are half that, or 2.5 percent. (It’s
actually 2.28 percent.) You should expect to lose money only 2.5 years out of every 100. It’s a pretty safe
investment.
12. The average return is 6.0 percent, with a standard deviation of 9.8 percent, so Prob(Return < –3.8 or Return
15.8 ) 1/3, but we are only interested in one tail; Prob Return –3.9 1/ 6
, which is half of 1/3 (or about 16%) .
95%: 6.0 ± 2σ = 6.0 ± 2(9.8) = –13.6% to 25.6%
99%: 6.0 ± 3σ = 6.0 ± 3(9.8) = –23.4% to 35.4%
13. Expected return = 16.4%; σ = 31.2%. Doubling your money is a 100% return, so if the return distribution
is normal, Z 100 – 16..2 2.68 standard deviations; this is in-between two and three standard
deviations, so the probability is small, somewhere between .5% and 2.5% (why?). Referring to the nearest
Z table, the actual probability is = 0.369%, or less than every 100 years. Tripling your money would be Z
200 – 16..2 5.88 standard deviations; this corresponds to a probability of (much) less than 0.01%.
(The actual answer is less than once every 1 million years, so don’t hold your breath.)
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Year Common stocks T-bill return Risk premium
1973 –14.69% 7.29% –21.98%
1974 –26.47% 7.99% –34.46%
1975 37.23% 5.87% 31.36%
1796 23.93% 5.07% 18.86%
1977 –7.16% 5.45% –12.61%
sum 12.84% 31.67% –18.83%
a. Annual risk premium = Common stock return – T-bill return (see table above).
b. Average returns: Common stocks 12.84/5 .0257, or 2.57%; T-bills 31.67/5 .0633 , or 6.33%
Risk premium –18.83/5 –.0377, or –3.77%
c. Common stocks: Var 1/ 4[ –.1469 – .0257 2 –.2647 – .0257 2 .3723 – .0257 2
.2393 – .0257 2
–.0716 – .0257 2
] .072337
1/2
Standard deviation 0.072337 .2690, or 26.90%
T-bills: Var 1/ 4 .0729 – .0633 2
.0799 – .0633 2
.0587 – .0633 2
.0507 –.0633 2
.0545 – .0633
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and Management, 10th Edition by Bradford Jordan and
Thomas Miller and Steve Dolvin
Solution Manual For
Fundamentals of Investments Valuation and Management, 10th Edition Jordan
Chapter 1-21
Chapter 1
A Brief History of Risk and Return
Concept Questions
1. For both risk and return, increasing order is b, c, a, d. On average, the higher the risk of an investment,
the higher is its expected return.
2. Since the price didn’t change, the capital gains yield was zero. If the total return was four percent, then
the dividend yield must be four percent.
3. It is impossible to lose more than –100 percent of your investment. Therefore, return distributions are
cut off on the lower tail at –100 percent; if returns were truly normally distributed, you could lose much
more.
4. To calculate an arithmetic return, you sum the returns and divide by the number of returns. As such,
arithmetic returns do not account for the effects of compounding (and, in particular, the effect of
volatility). Geometric returns do account for the effects of compounding and for changes in the base
used for each year’s calculation of returns. As an investor, the more important return of an asset is the
geometric return.
5. Blume’s formula uses the arithmetic and geometric returns along with the number of observations to
approximate a holding period return. When predicting a holding period return, the arithmetic return
will tend to be too high and the geometric return will tend to be too low. Blume’s formula adjusts these
returns for different holding period expected returns.
6. T-bill rates were highest in the early eighties since inflation at the time was relatively high. As we
discuss in our chapter on interest rates, rates on T-bills will almost always be slightly higher than the
expected rate of inflation.
7. Risk premiums are about the same regardless of whether we account for inflation. The reason is that
risk premiums are the difference between two returns, so inflation essentially nets out.
8. Returns, risk premiums, and volatility would all be lower than we estimated because aftertax returns
are smaller than pretax returns.
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and Management, 10th Edition by Bradford Jordan and
Thomas Miller and Steve Dolvin
9. We have seen that T-bills barely kept up with inflation before taxes. After taxes, investors in T-bills
actually lost ground (assuming anything other than a very low tax rate). Thus, an all T-bill strategy will
probably lose money in real dollars for a taxable investor.
10. It is important not to lose sight of the fact that the results we have discussed cover over 80 years, well
beyond the investing lifetime for most of us. There have been extended periods during which small
stocks have done terribly. Thus, one reason most investors will choose not to pursue a 100 percent
stock (particularly small-cap stocks) strategy is that many investors have relatively short horizons, and
high volatility investments may be very inappropriate in such cases. There are other reasons, but we
will defer discussion of these to later chapters.
11.
Solutions to Questions and Problems
NOTE: All end of chapter problems were solved using a spreadsheet. Many problems require multiple steps.
Due to space and readability constraints, when these intermediate steps are included in this solutions
manual, rounding may appear to have occurred. However, the final answer for each problem is found
without rounding during any step in the problem.
Core Questions
1. Total dollar return = 100($41 – $37 + $.28) = $428.00
Whether you choose to sell the stock does not affect the gain or loss for the year; your stock is worth
what it would bring if you sold it. Whether you choose to do so or not is irrelevant (ignoring
commissions and taxes).
2. Capital gains yield $41 – $37 / $37 .1081, or 10.81% Dividend yield $.28/$37 .0076, or .76%
Total rate of return 10.81% .76% 11.57%
3. Dollar return = 500($34 – $37 + $.28) = –$1,360
Capital gains yield $34 – $37 /$37 –.0811, or –8.11%
Dividend yield $.28/$37 .0076, or .76% Total rate of return = –
8.11% + .76% = –7.35%
4.
a. average return = 6.0%, average risk premium = 2.7%
b. average return = 3.3%, average risk premium = 0%
c. average return = 12.3%, average risk premium = 9.0%
d. average return = 16.3%, average risk premium = 13.0%
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and Management, 10th Edition by Bradford Jordan and
Thomas Miller and Steve Dolvin
5. Cherry average return 17% 11% – 2% 3% 14% /5 8.60% Straw average return
16% 18% – 6% 1% 22% /5 10.20%
6. Cherry: RA 8.60%
Var 1/ 4 .17 – .086 2
.11 – .086 2
–.02 – .086 2
.03 – .086 2
.14 – .086 2
.00623
1/2
Standard deviation .00623 .0789, or 7.89%
Straw: RB 10.20%
Var 1/ 4 .16 – .102 2 .18 – .102 2 –.06 – .102 2 .01 – .102 2 .22 – .102 2
.01452
1/2
Standard deviation .01452 .1205, or 12.05%
7. The capital gains yield is $59 – $65 /$65 –.0923, or –9.23% (notice the negative sign). With a
dividend yield of 1.2 percent, the total return is –8.03%.
8. Geometric return 1 .17 1 .11 1 .02 1 .03 1 .14 (1/5)
–1 .0837,
or 8.37%
9. Arithmetic return .21 .12 .07 –.13 – .04 . .0817, or 8.17%
(1/6)
Geometric return 1 .21 1 .12 1 .07 1 – .13 1 – .04 1 .26 – 1
.0730, or 7.30%
Intermediate Questions
10. That’s plus or minus one standard deviation, so about two-thirds of the time, or two years out of three. In
one year out of three, you will be outside this range, implying that you will be below it one year out of six
and above it one year out of six.
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and Management, 10th Edition by Bradford Jordan and
Thomas Miller and Steve Dolvin
11. You lose money if you have a negative return. With a 12 percent expected return and a 6 percent standard
deviation, a zero return is two standard deviations below the average. The odds of being outside (above or
below) two standard deviations are 5 percent; the odds of being below are half that, or 2.5 percent. (It’s
actually 2.28 percent.) You should expect to lose money only 2.5 years out of every 100. It’s a pretty safe
investment.
12. The average return is 6.0 percent, with a standard deviation of 9.8 percent, so Prob(Return < –3.8 or Return
15.8 ) 1/3, but we are only interested in one tail; Prob Return –3.9 1/ 6
, which is half of 1/3 (or about 16%) .
95%: 6.0 ± 2σ = 6.0 ± 2(9.8) = –13.6% to 25.6%
99%: 6.0 ± 3σ = 6.0 ± 3(9.8) = –23.4% to 35.4%
13. Expected return = 16.4%; σ = 31.2%. Doubling your money is a 100% return, so if the return distribution
is normal, Z 100 – 16..2 2.68 standard deviations; this is in-between two and three standard
deviations, so the probability is small, somewhere between .5% and 2.5% (why?). Referring to the nearest
Z table, the actual probability is = 0.369%, or less than every 100 years. Tripling your money would be Z
200 – 16..2 5.88 standard deviations; this corresponds to a probability of (much) less than 0.01%.
(The actual answer is less than once every 1 million years, so don’t hold your breath.)
14.
Year Common stocks T-bill return Risk premium
1973 –14.69% 7.29% –21.98%
1974 –26.47% 7.99% –34.46%
1975 37.23% 5.87% 31.36%
1796 23.93% 5.07% 18.86%
1977 –7.16% 5.45% –12.61%
sum 12.84% 31.67% –18.83%
a. Annual risk premium = Common stock return – T-bill return (see table above).
b. Average returns: Common stocks 12.84/5 .0257, or 2.57%; T-bills 31.67/5 .0633 , or 6.33%
Risk premium –18.83/5 –.0377, or –3.77%
c. Common stocks: Var 1/ 4[ –.1469 – .0257 2 –.2647 – .0257 2 .3723 – .0257 2
.2393 – .0257 2
–.0716 – .0257 2
] .072337
1/2
Standard deviation 0.072337 .2690, or 26.90%
T-bills: Var 1/ 4 .0729 – .0633 2
.0799 – .0633 2
.0587 – .0633 2
.0507 –.0633 2
.0545 – .0633
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