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• Competency 1: Evaluate the global financial environment.
- Identify challenges for practitioners in using expected return.
- Explain how different allocations between the risk-free security and the market portfolio can achieve any level of desired market risk.
- Calculate expected return, considering the possibility of differing economic states.
- Calculate required return, considering the risk-free rate and the risk premium.
- Calculate the market risk premium of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index, showing applicable input values, computational steps, and formulas.
- Explain why expected return is considered forward-looking.
- Calculate the beta of a portfolio, showing applicable input values, computational steps, and formulas.
Competency 2:
1. Define finance terminology and its application within the business environment.
2. Calculate required return, using the capital asset pricing model.