Using the historical risk premiums as your guide, what is your
estimate of the expected annual HPR on the market index stock
portfolio if the current risk-free interest rate is 3%?
If we are taking the current risk free interest rate as 3%, then any market index stock which I will be generally preferring would be related to highly aggressive and volatile stock which will be having a beta of higher than 1 like Apple .
Beta of Apple is 1.28 and market rate of return I would be expecting under current situation would be based upon the historical risk premium and it is around 8% because of the given downward trajectory of the economy due to coronavirus.
Hence expected rate of return will be=
Risk free rate of return+beta (market rate of return- risk free rate of return)
=(3+1.28(8-3)
=3*1.28(5)
=9.4%
Hence I will be expecting a rate of return of 9.4 %.
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