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Category: Lists of four-letter combinations The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is used in finance to determine a theoretically appropriate price of an asset given that assets non-diversifiable risk. ... Established in 1969 and situated outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, the Project Management Institute (PMI) was founded by five volunteers. ... It has been suggested that Apocopation be merged into this article or section. ... Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ... Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ...

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Capital asset pricing model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1607 words)
	The CAPM formula takes into account the asset's sensitivity to non-diversifiable risk (also known as systematic risk or market risk), in a number often referred to as beta (β) in the financial industry, as well as the expected return of the market and the expected return of a theoretical risk-free asset.
	The CAPM assumes that the risk-return profile of a portfolio can be optimized - an optimal portfolio displays the lowest possible level of risk for its level of return.
	Unfortunately, it has been shown that this substitution is not innocuous and can lead to false inferences as to the validity of the CAPM, and it has been said that due to the inobservability of the true market portfolio, the CAPM might not be empirically testable.

CAPM - Capital Asset Pricing Model (752 words)
	CAPM is based on the idea that investors demand additional expected return (called the risk premium) if they are asked to accept additional risk.
	CAPM was introduced by Treynor ('61), Sharpe ('64) and Lintner ('65).
	A consequence of CAPM thinking is that it implies that investing in individual stocks is useless, because one can duplicate the reward and risk characteristics of any security just by using the right mix of cash with the appropriate asset class.

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