Financial Assets Risk Assessment 2022

RUNNING HEADER: FINANCIAL ASSETS RISK ASSESSMENT 1
Financial Assets Risk Assessment
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Introduction
The stock markets across the globe offers an endless opportunities and risk for various
investors (Asker, Farre-Mensa & Ljungqvist, 2015). Aggressive investors of for
diversification to maximize their returns. Stock diversification reduces risk by allocating of
assets among various industries, financial instruments, and other categories (Gepp et al.,
2018). As a result, investors choose to come up with a stock portfolio. A stock portfolio
contains a collection of stocks which an investor accumulates hoping of making a profit.
Investors become more resilient by putting together a portfolio that is diverse, spanning the
various sectors listed within the Bourse. Having a diversified portfolio is very advantageous
for an investor since he or she can take advantage of capital appreciation, dividends, liquidity
and diversity of a portfolio (Lean & Wong, 2015). It should be noted that diversification does
not guarantee profit taking only since the risk still exists though minimized.
The following study looks at CBA, QAN and ANZ stocks and how portfolios based on CBA
and QAN, and CBA and ANZ and compare.
Comparing and contrasting the Return and Risk of Portfolio 1 with Portfolio 2.
From the excel calculations carried out, it was observed that the return and risk of portfolio 1
is 17.04% and 8.45% respectively. On the other hand, the return and risk of portfolio 2 is
9.67% and 10.81% respectively. Based on the return and the risk, the most efficient portfolio
was determined.
A portfolio is considered as efficient or optimal if it offers the best expected return on a
specific level of risk or offers the minimum risk for a specified return that is expected
(Guerard, Markowitz & Xu, 2015). Portfolio 1 has the highest return compared to portfolio
2. However, portfolio 2 can be seen to have the highest risk compared to portfolio 1. Thus, it
can be deduced that portfolio 1 is more efficient compared to portfolio 2.

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However, the choice of which portfolio to choose depends on the nature of the investor
(Brugiere, 2020). In this scenario, both a risk averse investor and a risk taker investor would
opt for Portfolio 2 since it has the highest returns and the lowest risk.
Assets (CBA, QAN, Portfolio 2 and MVP 2) that has the highest and lowest coefficient
of variations
The coefficient of variation evaluates the volatility of a stock (Bekaert & Hoerova, 2014).
The coefficient of variation is the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean which is vital in
the comparison between the degree of variation between data series. From the information
obtained on the Excel calculation, it is evident that QAN has the lowest coefficient of
variations while MVP 2 has the highest coefficient of variation. The coefficient of variation
simply imply that MVP 2 has the highest volatility between the four combinations while
QAN has the lowest volatility.
The coefficient of variation is useful when employing the risk/reward ratio in selecting an
investment (Abella et al., 2017). Thus, a risk averse investor would go for QAN while a risk-
taking investor will go for MVP 2.
Levels of Coefficients and significance (p-values) of the Intercept and Beta (X Variable
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It was seen that the regression model for CBA was statistically significant (p < 0.05) while
the regression model for QAN is not statistically significant (p > 0.05).
Hence, the beta estimate is 0.86 and statistically significant (p < 0.05) while the abnormal
return is 0.01 for CBA (but not statistically significant since p > 0.05).
Regression results consistency with the CAPM predictions